Nice to know about 1 and 4 items. I was asking for something like that
years ago and is nice to see Leo finally taking that direction. My way
to deal with them was by using Pharo and creating my own interactive and
easy to install outliner, but the exploration of the ideas is more
important and is nice to have different implementations and variations
of the same core ideas (like interactive outliners to structure
writing/thought).
Congrats for these new directions and renewed impulse in Leo.
Offray
On 01/03/16 05:38, Edward K. Ream wrote:
Engineering is intensely enjoyable because it involves the interplay
between big visions and endless picky but important details. The big
picture is now pretty clear:
1. Release PyInstaller version of Leo on all platforms asap.
2. Release an official version, 5.1.1, asap.
3. Create api's and commands for using icons, attributes and windows.
4. Decouple panes so that any kind of pane can appear anywhere.
In this post, I'm going to discuss the details that support points 1
and 2 above.
*Anaconda distributions*
I am now basing all my windows work on Anaconda
<https://www.continuum.io/downloads>. Install Anaconda and it's
unlikely you will have to install anything else. I installed the
32-bit versions for both Python 2 and 3. This should allow
soon-to-be-created PyInstaller version of Leo to work on any 32-bit or
64-bit system.
*pylint*
I have spent several days removing complaints issued by the latest
pylint. In particular, most of the code now uses isinstance(obj)
instead of tests against type(obj). This simplified the code, but was
potentially dangerous, as it affected g.isString, etc. and some parts
of Leo's read/write code. However, all appears well. Imo, simplifying
fundamental code seemed worthwhile.
I spent many happy hours simplifying leo/test/pylint-leo-rc.txt,
pylint's configuration file. The new file is much simpler, shorter and
clearer than the old. Most importantly, it now uses option /names/
instead of option /numbers/. This is something I've wanted forever.
It's much easier to see what tests are disabled.
pylint-leo-rc.txt disables several categories of checks that are
pretty much irrelevant in Leonine contexts. This speeds up pylint
considerably.
I also added the -s option to leo-editor/pylint-leo.py, the
stand-alone version of pylint adapted to Leo. This silent option shows
only pylint errors.
*Schedule*
I plan to install Anaconda on my Linux and MacOS machines next. I
should then be in a position to release completely stand-alone
PyInstaller versions of Leo. Maybe in a day or so.
I doubt that Leo 5.1.1 will go out the door this Friday, March 4, as
originally proposed. True, minor bugs shouldn't inhibit releases, but
it seems wasteful not to fix as many bugs as possible before going to
all the work of getting an official release out the door. I'll
probably give myself another week to fix bugs. At present, seven bugs
are targeted for 5.1.1
<https://github.com/leo-editor/leo-editor/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Abug+milestone%3A5.1.1>.
The hard crashes look like release blockers, but I think all 7 bugs
should be fixed if possible.
All comments welcome.
Edward
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