I actually completely agree with you, but enjoy playing devil's advocate. However I do think it remains true that if a given user has much trouble (say more than a hour's fiddling) getting Leo up and running from the current instructions, then they are unlikely to benefit from using Leo.
Except of course as a learning exercise, in which case they benefited from the installation process in the same way. And that process itself is IMO just not that hard - I had never looked at any tool related to Python, much less installed it before, and I just followed the instructions and baddabing baddaboom I've got Leo running, maybe 40 minutes altogether. Getting it to run "portably", as my environment requires, took a bit more fiddling (anyone interested I just posted a howto here<https://groups.google.com/d/msg/leo-editor/HBhBnAyVG3E/UXHC1jq50iYJ>), but I'm not counting that. If there were all-in-one windows installer, I for one would definitely have chosen not to use it, because I don't trust such routines: - Just the non-admin-user on W7 is a mess to deal with. - Are you trusting the %path% active at the time of installation? - Or (god forbid) relying on strings written by other arbitrary install routines to the registry? - What if I already have multiple instances/versions of Python installed? - Or are you installing yet another full Python+GTK+whatever instance that I'll now need to maintain in addition to my existing ones? Again I'm not speaking for the developers, but I suspect most of them would rather not spend their time on improving this specific area of the package as opposed to the other aspects they're currently working on (or the other aspects of their lives 8-). And of course the usual FOSS answer applies here - if you think such a packaged setup routine is important to the project, and you have the skills, feel free to code it up and submit it for consideration to be incorporated into the program. Or submit a wishlist to the bug tracker and if not now, perhaps in future it will act as a reminder to inspire someone with the skills who would like to encourage non-technical users to try Leo out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/leo-editor/-/_dhXS5AxqkwJ. 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.
