For a long time I've had a dream that Leo could be used for data sets as large, say, as the human genome project. A few days ago I saw that this dream makes no sense whatever.
#1123 <https://github.com/leo-editor/leo-editor/issues/1123> discusses the dream, and why it will never happen. Here are the conclusions from #1123: There is a practical upper limit to the size of Leo outlines. This limit is imposed by assumptions underlying Leo, especially the assumption that searching all positions in an outline can be done in a reasonable amount of time. As a result, Leo will never *be* a database. Leo's users easily *access *data from (possibly very large) databases, using python's sqlite3 module <https://docs.python.org/3/library/sqlite3.html>, or in other ways. Users can organize the results of db queries in the usual Leonine ways. *Last thoughts* The end of a nonsensical dream is always welcome. It clears the way for better things. I am confident of these conclusions. All questions and comments welcome. 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 leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
