On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Jacob Peck <[email protected]> wrote:

> Leo might be able to work in such an environment... in which case, there
> could be a "launch Leo" button on leoeditor.com to run the whole shebang
> right in the browser.
>

Looking at the example manifest on the home page I could tell right away
arc.io is based on Tiny Core Linux (http://tinycorelinux.net/)--an
excellent small Linux distribution which I frequently tinker around with.

As a matter of fact, I'm booted into Tiny Core right now because the hard
drive with my Arch Linux installation recently crashed and I haven't
replaced it yet. I've have Tiny Core installs laying around all over the
place here, so I'm using it in the meantime.

I have Leo running in this linux environment, so it should also work in
arc.io. Tiny Core doesn't have a huge selection of packages in its
repository, but it has enough to run Leo. You just have to install the
pyqt.tcz package (all the dependencies such as python and qt are
automatically followed) and download and run leo.

One additional package is needed in order to prevent the viewrendered
plugin from throwing an error at startup. The error complains about missing
qtsvg.so file.  This missing file is contained in the qt-4.x-extended.tcz
package which is not listed as a dependency of pyqt.tcz.

So in Tiny Core, the steps to running Leo are (haven't tested this from
scratch so maybe I'm missing something, but it should be close):

  tce-load -i pyqt.tcz
  tce-load -i qt-4.x-extended.tcz
  wget http://www.greygreen.org/leo/leo-editor-latest.zip
  unzip leo-editor-latest.zip
  python leo-editor-latest/launchLeo.py

So it would be easy to setup a recipe for Leo, but arc.io would really have
to take off for it to be worthwhile. Installing arc causes VirtualBox to be
installed and that requires admin rights and that seems like a big hurdle
to me. Maybe not. If installing arc.io is easier than installing Leo, then
it could be worthwhile.

But for now arc.io is only available on Mac, so I'm unable to even play
with it right now.

Brian

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