Work on Leo will be slowing

[Edward K. Ream]

Work on Leo seems destined to slow considerably:

- Félix has completed his line-by-line code review.

- There are few significant items on Leo's to-do list.

- Leo 6.7.6 supports Python 3.12.

  The dreaded software rot isn't likely to reappear until next October when Python 3.12 debuts :-)

Summary

I'll continue to maintain Leo, but I am about to spend most of my programming time using Leo rather than improving Leo. I'll start with #3662: rewrite the Orange class in Rust.

Edward

[Thomas Passin]

On Monday, December 18, 2023 at 8:19:20 AM UTC-5 Edward K. Ream wrote:

I'll continue to maintain Leo, but I am about to spend most of my programming time using Leo rather than improving Leo. 

I'm glad to read this.  After all, it's what Leo is for, to be used.  At this point, I'm inclined to think that any improvements to Leo should come from a desire to do something, the lack of which one discovers through using it.

[Edward K. Ream]

Yes. That's exactly what I was trying to say.

Edward

[Edward K. Ream]

On Monday, December 18, 2023 Thomas wrote:

I'm inclined to think that any improvements to Leo should come from a desire to do something, the lack of which one discovers through using it.

For example, rev 644c88b (See PR #3717) contains a tweak for Rust.

Leo should add use @language ini within @edit x.toml nodes.

Edward