Would you like to have a copy of the LEO file that contains the repository? You could see you my set-up.
On Saturday, February 27, 2021 at 11:47:19 AM UTC-5 Edward K. Ream wrote: > 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/d2fe2977-3742-4175-8b07-89097882a10fn%40googlegroups.com.
