On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 9:53 PM, bpursley <[email protected]> wrote:
> undocumented! Past suggestions for a "Leo Cookbook" with fully > executable examples have consistently been shot down. Have they? I believe the problem is, as always, the time it takes to do such a thing. Leo's source code (particularly the plugins/ directory) could be the cookbook for now. > I am grateful that Leo has been shared with the coding world. I > "feel" that Leo ought to be at the core of any tool set for developing > in python. But then, several years ago I "felt" that both Perl and You could feel more relaxed about future of Leo if you didn't think of it as a Python programming tool. Use it as an outliner, to arrange your thoughts and possibly emit some .py / .txt / whatever files every now and then when the need comes. Or make a script to read some stuff from your files, create a leo outline, read / modify that outline and use it to collect, organize and emit some interesting output. Create 230 config files if that rocks your boat :-). Leo is betting on (at least) 2 winning technologies - python and PyQt, neither of which is going away, so the source code has clear evolution path. Leo is also python3 compliant now, which is a rarity among large python projects. I see that biggest hurdles of Leo have actually been solved already (bad UI, slowness), and it's only getting better. Open source projects can stall for a period when people have other things on their plate for a while (e.g. my development has been curtailed because of busy job & small boy (1-year birthday this week!)). OTOH, in the meantime I have been using Leo *more*, not less, as I have more complex information management needs at work. It all evens out after a period. If you think of projects like perl and mysql, they can "die" because they are trounced by their competition. If Leo was a python ide, it could be "beaten" by, say, wing ide or komodo (to the extent that it would make no sense to put more effort on Leo development, because the battle would be hopeless). But Leo isn't a python ide; there is no other program like Leo. I'm not sure there ever was one either - leo is rare in that it's not a re-creation of something that existed previously, but charting previously uncharted waters. That's why it hits some dead ends along the way, but that's part of the journey :-). -- Ville M. Vainio @@ Forum Nokia -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en.
