Yes I agree, 20 mb (or less size) always looks and feels better :) On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 9:42 PM, Matt Wilkie <[email protected]> wrote:
> I forgot the main point of the story: to this day, WCS has warm rosy > ambiance in my thoughts even though I've long since moved to other things. > In large part that is due to the initial experience, my being really > impressed with how much they could accomplish with such a small package. > > On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Matt Wilkie <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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. > -- 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.
