note.. i could not add the link to the title here, it looks like this site is banned by b2evolution.. just google for “install macleo”..

it took m a bit to figure it out, but DUH..

i finally got leo (a literate programming tool) to run on OSX…

keep in mind that the install info asks you to install the file and a script as such:

</p> <h1>!/bin/sh</h1> <h1>$2 only works if .leo is one of the extensions.</h1> <p>/usr/bin/pythonw ~/leo/src/leo.py $2

but make sure you chmod+x the file that you write, otherwise platypus will let you make the file, but it will not run MacLeo, nor will it tell you why it just craps out. the deal is, it has no +x privs.

chmod+x the file, and you are good to go.

one thing that i thought was interesting about the whole thing is that the mac version of leo was pretty much that hardest one to install..

i hope it’s worth it…

i spent 12 hours programming with scott yesterday. although i always thought i was a pretty good and pretty thoughtful programmer, i have never met anyone who was as a good a programmer as scott. without getting too wrapped up in the details, i think what i gleaned most from working with scott was that i have been trying to throw alot of heavyweight at alot of lightweight problems. i have spent way too much time trying to figure out how to make the tools i have fit the problem at hand. working with scott, he had the opposite approach. fit the problem at hand to the tools.
i seem to do this alot, since i can remember. i spend too much time trying to come up with a sophisticated or elegant solution to a problem. in the meantime, the problem gets lost in the mud of the solution.
i thought it was cool that while scott acknowledges that he is one of the heaviest heavyweight programmers, this is due to the fact that this is ALL he’s done his whole life. i found him a good teacher.. and a good listener.. and a good dude..