On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 8:18 AM, Edward K. Ream <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 3:24 AM, Ludwig Schwardt > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I bear good tidings of great joy! > > Great news indeed. > > Kent, please note the first lines of http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/
Hmm, I guess I come off as a Linux fanboy, not really. I'm constantly breaking Ubuntu, because I monkey with it. When I was using Windows, I broke that. My point is not OS comparisons, but the basic principle of destructive testing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destructive_testing I learn best by taking things apart, breaking them. > > Packages are installed into their own isolated prefixes > and then symlinked into /usr/local. I was about to say that's an ongoing debate: Windows tends towards app files grouped under C:\Program Files, unix prefers categorization: config in /etc, data in /var ... But then I noticed they are _symlinked_ symlinking does offer all kinds of "best of both world" type opportunities. A Buildout managed Python app will typically use many eggs, they may be somewhat scattered. A tool named omelet builds a convenient tree of symlinks, offering easy access to the eggs your app uses. > > Imo, this is what should be done for almost all packages on Linux. It > would ease the pain enormously. No need for sudo to modify packages > that I installed. If you symlink to a root-owned file, you can't edit it as yourself. No conflicts with system software. No > catastrophes. Oooh, I hope you're knocking on wood ANY time you utter "No catastrophes" So many good ideas have been thought of in the past, tried, and abandoned because of the answer to: "What could possibly go wrong?" > >> Here is my installation write-up: > > First-rate instructions. Actually, better than what typically passes > for first-rate :-) > >> We should consider adding a Homebrew formula for Leo. This will >> simplify the process even further, to simply "brew install leo". > > I agree. > >> Now I just have to start using Leo after all these years of checking >> it out... :-) > > Many thanks for this valuable work. Leo will only work well on the > Mac when more people use it there. > > Edward > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
