On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 5:00 PM, James A. Donald <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Ville M. Vainio <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > > This makes me slightly
> > > nervous, since I never commit that file (or anything apart from .py
> > > files in the first place), and I'm afraid sometimes valuable code in
> > > .py file could be thrown away because code in .txt file will take
> > > precedence.
>
> Edward K. Ream wrote:
> > That's highly unlikely to happen, because qtNotes.txt will likely be in
> > synch with all the .py files when you commit.  The only thing to avoid
> would
> > be to make external changes in qtNotes.txt rather than the "primary"
> files.
>
> You can do this sort of thing, because you are mindful of the internals,
> but it is behavior that is dangerous and difficult for naive users - or
> even highly sophisticated developers such as Ville M. Vaino.


The rule is simple:  put files containing @all (or cross-file clones) before
all the files that "own" the cross-file clones.


> Open source projects have a chronic and infamous tendency to drift away
> from user friendliness,


I wouldn't put it this way.  The drift is towards more and more features.
Some may be dubious, but the vast majority are there for a good reason and
add significantly to Leo.  If this isn't user-friendliness, what is?

True, there is a lot to learn to become an expert, but newbies don't have to
know any of the new stuff.

and the out of dateness of the documentation,
> and the non obviousness what is safe and unsafe usage, represents such a
> drift.


The constraint I discuss above was never documented.  It's a hole, not any
kind of drift.  Please file a doc bug.

Edward

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