I remember getting World Construction Set v2 on a single 1.4mb floppy disk. It could render realistic (for 1995) 3 dimensional perspective views including trees, clouds, sky haze, water reflections and all based on real world geographic data. Our current mainstream geographic information system at the time could only render wireframe 3D views and the install files were spread across almost 20 disks. With 3-500mb hardrives at the time, we didn't care about the size then either. We did care about how long it took to get started!
Long story short: 20mb is better than 200mb even if you don't ever have to think about storage allocation. If it translates to a few seconds download and start instead of minutes, it's just a better user experience. That said, I wouldn't let the large size of the bundle stop us from creating it. :) -matt On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 2:17 AM, Fidel N <[email protected]> wrote: > I would say its only good news, with the current online storage websites > offering so many gb's and the price of new usb's / hardrives, I dont think > 200mb should be a problem anymore. > > > On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Matt Wilkie <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I just tested this new Chocolatey recipe. It works on my Win7 laptop, but >> since it's had many versions of python and related installed it can't be >> considered a clean test. >> >> From a user profile with admin privileges open a command shell and >> (careful of linewrap) run the below. It: >> >> - downloads and installs Chocolately >> - choco installs commandline nuget, x64 python & pyqt4, pip >> - pip installs Leo from github >> - runs Leo >> >> The resulting C:\Python27 tree can be copied elsewhere and Leo (and any >> of python) run from there (see last line). >> >> This is all good news. The bad news? The folder is ~235mb. >> >> >> @powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy unrestricted ^ >> -Command "iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString(' >> https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))" >> >> SET PATH=%PATH%;%systemdrive%\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin >> cinst nuget.commandline >> cinst pyqt4 >> cinst pip >> pushd C:\Python27\ >> .\Scripts\pip install >> https://github.com/leo-editor/leo-editor/archive/master.zip >> popd >> move C:\Python27 D:\Python27 >> pushd D:\Python27 >> pythonw -c "import leo.core.runLeo; leo.core.runLeo.run()" >> >> ------ >> Leo Log Window >> Leo 4.11 final, build 20141011154346, Sat Oct 11 15:43:46 CDT 2014 >> Not running running from a cloned git repo >> Python 2.7.2, PyQt version 4.8.5 >> Windows 7 AMD64 (build 6.1.7601) SP1 >> leoID=maphew (in C:\Users\Matt\Dropbox\.leo) >> load dir: D:\Python27\lib\site-packages\leo\core >> global config dir: D:\Python27\lib\site-packages\leo\config >> home dir: C:\Users\Matt\Dropbox >> reading settings in >> D:\Python27\lib\site-packages\leo\config\leoSettings.leo >> reading settings in C:\Users\Matt\Dropbox\.leo\myLeoSettings.leo >> reading settings in C:\Users\Matt\Dropbox\.leo\workbook.leo >> reading: C:\Users\Matt\Dropbox\.leo\workbook.leo >> ------ >> >> -- >> 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 [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
