Re: Imo, setup.py does not prevent Leo 5.0-final

2014-11-23 Thread Matt Wilkie
> Your comments, please. It'll be a day or two before I have time to take another run at understanding setup.py, or (perhaps) have anything meaningful to contribute. -matt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this

Re: Why not just use git on Linux??

2014-11-23 Thread Matt Wilkie
> Can somebody *please* explain to me why the first way is far superior to > the second. I just do not get it. `pip install leo` downloads ~5-6mb, vs git clone's ~130mb (and always growing). This won't matter for many, but for those whom conserving bandwidth and/or space is important it's a big

Re: Why not just use git on Linux??

2014-11-23 Thread 'Terry Brown' via leo-editor
On Sun, 23 Nov 2014 04:53:43 -0800 (PST) "Edward K. Ream" wrote: > Davy Cottet has offered to create a Debian distro for Leo shortly > after Leo 5.0-final goes out the door. That's great, and I > appreciate the effort. > > When a leo distro exists, people will be able to do: > > (sudo) apt

Re: What is the status of installers for 5.0 final?

2014-11-23 Thread Davy Cottet
> > ​I don't understand your point here. You are welcome to become part of > the leo-editor team.​ > > I just wanted to say that it would be better if leo ppa could be part of leo-editor existing launchpad account for you to have full control of it. I just set-up a PPA to see what are differ

Re: Why not just use git on Linux??

2014-11-23 Thread Miles Fidelman
Edward K. Ream wrote: Davy Cottet has offered to create a Debian distro for Leo shortly after Leo 5.0-final goes out the door. That's great, and I appreciate the effort. I'm assuming you mean Debian package, not distro. When a leo distro exists, people will be able to do: (sudo) apt-g

Why not just use git on Linux??

2014-11-23 Thread Edward K. Ream
Davy Cottet has offered to create a Debian distro for Leo shortly after Leo 5.0-final goes out the door. That's great, and I appreciate the effort. When a leo distro exists, people will be able to do: (sudo) apt-get install leo But even without an official leo package, people can just do:

Imo, setup.py does not prevent Leo 5.0-final

2014-11-23 Thread Edward K. Ream
Imo, setup.py is not a release blocker for Leo 5.0 final. However, because of ongoing controversy, I plan to release Leo 5.0-rc1 later today, after fixing one more bug. This release will be for final testing only: it will only be announced here. Here is what I think I know about the present s

Re: What is the status of installers for 5.0 final?

2014-11-23 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 9:42 PM, Davy Cottet wrote: > I've less time to work on it on the week-end, but I think within a couple > of days, I'll get to the point of having a clean debian build procedure for > Leo. > ​Excellent. This should avoid most issues with python setup.py install on Linux.

Re: What is the status of installers for 5.0 final?

2014-11-23 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 5:09 AM, Edward K. Ream wrote: > > I am willing to delay 5.0 final as long as necessary to get setup.py > working with both distutils (python setup.py install) and pip (pip install). > ​It seems to me that setup.py *does* work on both Windows and Ubuntu with distutils, wh

Re: Focus changes using abbreviations

2014-11-23 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Largo84 wrote: > Leo 5.0b2, build 20141121084819, Fri Nov 21 08:48:19 CST 2014 > Git repo info: branch = master, commit = 8618fe9d83c5 > Python 3.3.3, PyQt version 5.2.0 > Windows 8 AMD64 (build 6.2.9200) > > When editing at the end of a large block of text where

Re: What is the status of installers for 5.0 final?

2014-11-23 Thread Davy Cottet
A good example of multi-os install script with quite the same dependencies as Leo is the one from Eric IDE : http://die-offenbachs.homelinux.org:4/hg/eric/file/8e2b5bdd6bf3/install.py However, for both Calibre and Eric IDE one important point is that they are installed as "stand-alone" appl