"It's not ok to require that people use `git` to get it, 
that's unreasonable."

Why?

The primary target user for Leo is a programmer, is it not? Perhaps once 
the development solidifies enough and begins targeting non-programmers 
(average user), then it might need a little dumbing down of the 
distribution method.

I may be a bit on the edge as a user, I use a rolling distribution for my 
operating system so I am familiar with the model, but Leo is currently 
fluid, and as a user that is one of its strengths to me. Installing git and 
writing a script to pull down the latest Leo and start it was simple, and I 
can't see it being any more difficult on other platforms. I guess I see the 
use of git as a feature. :-)

Chris

On Thursday, August 14, 2014 8:59:02 AM UTC-7, Terry wrote:
>
> On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 10:40:23 -0500 
> "Edward K. Ream" <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: 
>
> > On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Dufriz <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
> > > I am on Windows 8.1, running Python 3.3.5 with 
> > > PyQt4-4.10.4-gpl-Py3.3-Qt4.8.5-x64. 
> > > I am using Leo 4.11 final, build 6240. 
> > 
> > Thanks for this.  This looks like ancient history, though I might be 
> > mistaken. Recent builds (from git) look like: 
> > 
> > Leo 4.11 final, build 6e21a6dc12f0 (branch: master), 2014-08-13 
> > 08:30:03 
>
> That's a good point of course, my comments about needing "c, " added in 
> that call apply to the current trunk, not sure about that version. 
>
> Actually.... Houston, we have a problem. 
>
> Leo uses the model "use the trunk, it's stable" - ok 
>
> It's not ok to require that people use `git` to get it, that's 
> unreasonable. 
>
> But no problem, they can use the snapshot, 
> https://github.com/leo-editor/leo-editor/archive/master.zip 
>
> But... that identifies itself in the log window as 
>
>     Leo 4.11 final, build 6240, 2013-11-06 
>     Python 2.7.6, PyQt version 4.8.6 
>
> which is completely misleading.  It does that because it falls back on 
> version.py or similar, I assume, when the .git directory's not present. 
>
> So, we need a git commit hook to update version.py on every commit. 
>
> Or, not use git-hub for snapshots, but it seems git-hub is so close to 
> doing exactly what we need it's worth getting version reporting in 
> git-hub snapshots to work. 
>
> (Summary - quite possibly Dufriz is using the latest code, can't tell 
> from the log pane content) 
>
> Cheers -Terry 
>
> > Could you pull down the latest git version?  Alternatively, you could 
> > get a recent daily snapshot?  That way we can all be discussing recent 
> > code.  If you use git you can instantly get any improvements. 
> > 
> > Edward 
> > 
>

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