What happened to the standard 'installer' program concept... "install.msi" or .exe. or whatever? Is that still a thing?
Leo is not a python library like 'websockets' or some other 3rd party functionality library... should it not be installed with a 'real' installation program? (on windows) and some .deb package on debian linuxes, etc...? I'm a newbie with regards to those things... Just asking for my own curiosity for whomever has answers to this to answer back, if any... :) -- Félix On Thursday, May 20, 2021 at 8:56:23 AM UTC-4 Edward K. Ream wrote: > On Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at 3:32:23 AM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote: > > > They [the files in leo-editor folder] don't exist at all, if the user > has installed Leo via pip from PyPI - and - not via 'git clone' from GitHub. > > Somehow I never understood this. > > > The problem / surprise occurs for *any *user, which is assuming that > both installation methods provide equal functionality. > > > List of Python files in Leo's root folder: > > * flake8-leo.py > * launchLeo.py -> similar functionality is available in > .../leo/scripts/leo , leo.bat , etc. ! > * launchLeo-console.py > * leoclient.py > * leoserver.py > * profileLeo.py > * pyflakes-leo.py > * pylint-leo.py > * run_pytest_test.py > * run_travis_unit_tests.py > * setup.py > > Wow. This is bad. I don't want to pick and choose which files a "more > important" than others. > > > All / most other Python files are needed *only *for Leo's developers > and *not *for Leo's users. > > Hmm. If possible, I would like all these files to be part all > distributions. > > > I guess in a 'perfect' world the only Python file expected in the root > folder is 'setup.py' [1]. > > > [1] https://packaging.python.org/ > > My eyes start to roll to the back of my head when I read this page :-) > > *Summary* > > I had no idea that `pip install leo` omits so many files. I'd like to fix > this, but changing the locations of files could break existing scripts. > > 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/a2c019ff-d5e1-4e9e-9db5-c03bea3b3cc1n%40googlegroups.com.
