Of course Edward, I tried to make it clear in original post that in now way
was I trying to manipulate/trick you into taking this on. It's a *huge*
project.
I think you've got important core work to do that doesn't involve writing
GUIs. Terry alluded to this but the only thing I would say, perhaps as a
discussion for your sprint, is simply that you consider the current
interface for writing front-ends in Leo.
I think if I *were* going to try to coerce you into anything it would be in
reviewing the boundary between Leo's core and Leo's Qt interface to ensure
that it is fully generic/decoupled so that it becomes as easy as possible
for *others beside you* to write front-ends for whatever comes along. From
my limited attempts to understand this interface it looked like the line
might have blurred a bit over the years, but that might also be me just not
having the expertise with either Leo or Qt to know where the line is
exactly. Blurry line or blurry vision? Not sure.
Despite you being a constant with Leo for decades I think we all know all
good things must come to an end at some point. My only wish, when you
leave, is that Leo's abstraction layers are clear, clean, concise. That way
when you're gone perhaps a team of 5 or 6 of us can hobble enough effort
together to keep Leo alive (by writing new parsers for new languages and
new GUIs for whatever popular framework is available).
On Tuesday, April 18, 2017 at 7:32:27 AM UTC-4, Edward K. Ream wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, April 18, 2017 at 6:10:19 AM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote:
>
> > I'll see if I can do a hello world app today.
>
> '''hello_curses.py: Hello world in curses.'''
> import curses as c
> import time
> w = c.initscr()
> w.insstr('Hello World')
> w.refresh()
> time.sleep(2)
> c.endwin()
>
> To repeat, this would be a major project. I'm not going down this rabbit
> hole any time soon.
>
> Edward
>
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