Re: .db files: how useful are they?

2017-08-20 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Adrian, Thanks for your interest and questions. I will support clones at some point, which are one of my favorite Leo features, but I have more pressing issues right now, (like finishing the PhD thesis writing) and making the interactive notebooks without cloning works well at the moment (despite

Re: .db files: how useful are they?

2017-08-20 Thread Adrian
Ok.. Kewl, Edward. I just had to ask. If my boss would let me turn our shop into a Smalltalk shop I would. Anything going in that directions piques my interest :) Offray, Hi, I have seen your project and it seems to be well received. I have not yet evaluated it, mainly because I read you do

Re: .db files: how useful are they?

2017-08-19 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 12:00 PM, Adrian wrote: > > Have you guys abandoned the idea of making a SmallTalk-esque environment? > I ask because I think it is somewhat related to this conversation in terms > of developer experience. > ​Why would we do that? ;-)​ We always want to use/steal as much

Re: .db files: how useful are they?

2017-08-19 Thread Adrian
Hi, Have you guys abandoned the idea of making a SmallTalk-esque environment? I ask because I think it is somewhat related to this conversation in terms of developer experience. On Thursday, August 17, 2017 at 9:54:07 AM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote: > > Representing .leo files as .db files i

Re: .db files: how useful are they?

2017-08-18 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 7:11 AM, vitalije wrote: I must agree there is very few (if any at all) advantages of new .db format > at the moment. But who knows what future will bring. > ​That's the best possible answer, imo. Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Go

Re: .db files: how useful are they?

2017-08-18 Thread vitalije
I have several ideas how to make use of new .db format. However, I don't have enough time at the moment to work on them. So, I will just write them here as a respond on title question. I must agree there is very few (if any at all) advantages of new .db format at the moment. But who knows what

Re: .db files: how useful are they?

2017-08-17 Thread Terry Brown
On Thu, 17 Aug 2017 10:18:31 -0500 Kent Tenney wrote: > Is current master considered safe? p.s. I think all those warnings have expired. I haven't seen any issues with light use of yesterday's master. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" g

Re: .db files: how useful are they?

2017-08-17 Thread Terry Brown
On Thu, 17 Aug 2017 10:18:31 -0500 Kent Tenney wrote: > How does one use the new db backend? > is it config, command line option, default ... ? I think sqlite db based caching is on by default in master. As far as I know the new tech. is currently confined to caching, using .db format for outli

Re: .db files: how useful are they?

2017-08-17 Thread Kent Tenney
How does one use the new db backend? is it config, command line option, default ... ? I haven't pulled for a while, there were some warnings Is current master considered safe? Thanks, Kent On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 9:54 AM, Edward K. Ream wrote: > Representing .leo files as .db files is an impor

.db files: how useful are they?

2017-08-17 Thread Edward K. Ream
Representing .leo files as .db files is an important new capability. It's going to stay, because using .db files is completely optional. However, I am not clear what their advantage is. On my (fast) machine, the difference in load times is negligible: - Loading 3 .db files and 1 .leo file: 7.6