On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 11:30 PM David Szent-Györgyi <[email protected]> wrote:
> Leo is your project, you provide free access to the fruits of your labor, > if you're going to remote @root that's your decision, but it may cause me > to ask questions I need answered if I am to preserve access to work that > I've done. > Please ask any questions you like. My question is this: what can you do with @root that is difficult or clumsy with @file? Can you provide an example of how you use @root? I've written about my use of Leo 4.3: it served as an easily deployed tool > for building utilities in the form of Windows Script Host files (WSF > files), and that I came up with a scheme that made it easy for me to use a > LEO file to hold the source code for the library of routines (in JScript or > VBScript) used by the WSF files as well as the source code for the > utilities I was building. Since each WSF file was independent and had to > include every library routine used therein, the libraries ended up written > to disk in multiple places in the various WSF files. > OK. These days, WSF files are frowned up on because script kiddies and other > malefactors used VBScript and similar technologies, so perhaps I shouldn't > care about preserving the ones I wrote, but I still use some of them > in-house, and they need maintenance; I don't want to lose access to my > Leo-based development environment if I can help it. > I'm not here to judge what people should be doing with Leo! > The last thing I would want to do would be cut myself off from Leo's > vibrant community; I am still a lone developer, working without help to > write utilities for work when I'm short of time for work as it is. That > said, if I must give up on using future versions of Leo, what do I do: pick > a version of Leo that is closest to my needs and create a fork? > Don't worry. Your objection will suffice to have Leo support @root indefinitely. If you don't mind, I'll add your name to the comments in leoTangle.py, to tell me, and future Leo devs, who's using this feature. Edward -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/CAMF8tS25pe5Ui5MC5Qg5Kj%3DyQSjh-VycOGc%3D5dEUf%2BtwQ02O8w%40mail.gmail.com.
