Thanks for your thoughts. @jake. This app too will only make sense within the specific outline it's for. I thought it might be interesting to some other folks, otherwise I wouldn't even have considered turning it into a plugin.
On Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 1:28:23 PM UTC-5 gates...@gmail.com wrote: > I have similar 'apps' that live inside Leo outlines, as scripts but not > plugins. At least one of them is well over 3000 lines of code :) > > I think the main question to ask is whether the 'app' makes any sense > outside the context of the outline it lives in. In my case, the ones I've > built really only make sense inside the one outline they live and work in. > A plugin for those seems like overkill, especially if it would pollute the > rest of my Leo session. But that's a tradeoff you'll have to think about > for yourself. > > Jake > > On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 1:22 PM tbp1...@gmail.com <tbp1...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I am developing an Leo application that displays in a tab in the Log >> frame. Eventually it will probably use two tabs. The code lives in a new >> subdirectory in Leo's plugins directory. >> >> Currently this code is not a real Leo plugin, because it does not use the >> plugin machinery. Instead, it installs its code and creates its tab using >> a Leo command script, which can be put into a button. This design reduces >> the complexity of the code compared to making it a "real" plugin. >> >> I'd like to know what people think about the question of whether to turn >> this app into a plugin. The code so far has nearly 400 lines of code, and >> will grow as I add planned functionality, if this makes any difference. At >> the moment it all lives in a single Python file, in addition to the install >> script. There are also several auxiliary scripts that are helpful to get >> the most value out of the app, so users will need to install and use some >> scripts even if the thing becomes a plugin. I suppose I could come up with >> a way for the app to install those other scripts on startup. >> >> So - would it be more Leonine, or more natural, to have this thing be a >> plugin or not? All suggestions gratefully received! >> >> -- >> 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+...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/6c608bf1-a1c2-4592-acb2-2cabfe73e0ban%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/6c608bf1-a1c2-4592-acb2-2cabfe73e0ban%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/b0089921-31b5-451e-b8b0-a3e387819184n%40googlegroups.com.
