Re: For Matt and other devs: leo/dist/git_install.py installs Leo using *only* git

2018-12-11 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 4:08 PM Matt Wilkie wrote: > Marked for study. > Thank you Edward, Speed. :) > > My first question is why? Meaning: I don't understand the problems it's > solving. > ... > At first reading I thought it was for disconnected environments because of > the zip archives, but

Re: For Matt and other devs: leo/dist/git_install.py installs Leo using *only* git

2018-12-11 Thread Terry Brown
On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 14:08:14 -0800 (PST) Matt Wilkie wrote: > Marked for study. > Thank you Edward, Speed. :) > > My first question is why? Meaning: I don't understand the problems > it's solving. At first reading I thought it was for disconnected > environments because of the zip archives, but

Re: For Matt and other devs: leo/dist/git_install.py installs Leo using *only* git

2018-12-11 Thread Matt Wilkie
Marked for study. Thank you Edward, Speed. :) My first question is why? Meaning: I don't understand the problems it's solving. At first reading I thought it was for disconnected environments because of the zip archives, but there's also talk of pulling updates from Github so that doesn't quite

For Matt and other devs: leo/dist/git_install.py installs Leo using *only* git

2018-12-11 Thread Edward K. Ream
My brother Speed wrote this script. I edited it lightly so pyflakes and pylint are happy. leoDist.leo contains the @file node. This is a very cool script. As I understand it, it installs Leo in a "headless" virtual environment that contains only git itself. In essence, it adapts git for an