Am Dienstag, 12. Juni 2018 12:43:11 UTC+2 schrieb Edward K. Ream: Terry, Vitalije, Ville Vainio, Bernhard Mulder, Kent Tenney, Marc-Antoine > Parent, Paul Paterson and others have all made significant contributions to > Leo. By any reasonable measure, Leo is open software. >
It's not whether people contribute, but how it happens. I think my usage of the term open source is a bit misleading for you. I do not mean open source in the sense the code is open available or under a open source license, but in the sense how accessable the code is to other people and how easy it is for other people to contribute to the project or even just for themself. Open source is also a mindset of how easily you can customize code for your own means. Leo's source code is difficult in places because it's always dealing with > the DAG. That can't be helped. Leo devs are special people. > And I say Leo's architecture could be way more simpler and more modular, allowing people to more easily contribute with less control from anyone. There is only a minimal neccessary core for what leo is doing, the rest is just bloat for comfort, though leo is not designed that way. Or more exactly, it did not grow that way, after all this is the original problem here. Historical grown design. Today everyone here want's to do way more with leo than you originally planned for it of what the architecture can easily deliver. The alternative isn't utopian simplicity, it's org mode. > No org-mode is a complete different project that just happens to overlap in functionality. Funny enough, in it's own way it's also a case of historical grown design. Microsoft Access, Jupiter Notebook or VS Code would be more approbiated as a comparation for what leo is and what people like to use it for. There, everything is a string. > A leo-file is also just a string of xml. And Leo Editor is a tool working on top of it and adding a higher level of complexity. Org-mode is also primary a collection of tools to work with org-files, but also on top of org-files. And There is nothing preventing people to do the same with org-files as people here are doing with leo-files. Actually there are projects doing similar things, but it's not a main focus, after all in generally there are different goals in that culture. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
