docs: Document methods to get the latest neovim #1626
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This looks great 😄 |
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Do you think installing from tarball / building from source should also be mentioned, or are they too advanced / inconvenient for a beginner? |
I can't really speak for beginners here, I find installing from tarball (or appimage) pretty easy. They are both mentioned in the install.md over at the neovim repo. The other reason why I wouldn't list them here is that they don't have any kind of update functionality. Imagine a beginner, following this readme, the package manager version is outdated, so they grab it as a tarball. 6 Months later, a breaking change forces them to upgrade. Realistically by now they have forgotten what a tarball even is, how they got it and so on. But the same could happen with any other installation that isn't the distros main package manager, they could forget about bob, flatpack, etc. as well. I'll happily add it though, if you think it's valuable to have. |
Fixes #1583
List, link briefly describe some methods that get new neovim versions very quickly, as discussed in the linked issue. With this, pretty much anybody should find a convenient way to install and update. This additional shorter list adds value to newcomers because it only lists methods that update very quickly, which is a necessity for using kickstart, whereas neovims install.md is exhaustive, but doesn't mention the issue of outdated packages.