[IPython-dev] Re: Leo, IPython and the summer of code
Edward K. Ream
edreamleo at charter.net
Tue Jul 5 18:02:05 EDT 2005
> It does not interact with IPython in the way we need.
I implied in my original post that more work would be needed. Suppose you
do have some code that you need. Embedding that code in Leo should be
straightforward.
> However, we are not looking for a literate programming tool.
Leo is not _just_ a literate programming tool. The literate programming
features are optional, though I suspect that noweb will, in fact, be quite
useful for this project. In this discussion what is important is that Leo
is a very fine notebook, with many general useful features that have nothing
to do with LP.
> We are looking for a GUI Read-Eval-Print Loop that is embedded in a rich
> text document.
What prevents you from putting that loop in Leo? Leo's body pane, that is,
the body text of each node, is in fact a rich text document.
> 1. We want the shell as part of the GUI.
> 2. We don't want the user to have to do any markup unless he is doing
> something special.
I see no reason why these goals are incompatible with Leo.
> I do not believe that using Leo as a base for this project is justified at
> this time.
Isn't it a bit hasty to dismiss Leo out of hand? Without a code base
similar to Leo you are likely to spend years of work on the notebook.
Edward
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