Hello all, I will once again recommend the calibre approach. It is multi-platform, has deeply impenetrable dependencies and uses a one-click installer on all three platforms.
http://calibre-ebook.com/ Chris On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 5:52 AM, Marcel Franke < kugelfischtemp...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Kent Tenney wrote: > > Given Leo's programmability and vast number of plugins, it is really >> a platform for building things, and a learning curve is involved. >> Getting it installed correctly and painlessly is required but doesn't >> help in understanding what power is available. >> >> > See, VM and "installing" are concept which don't work together. > A VM is a complete environment, not a single programm you integrate easily > into your own environment and workflow. > > If you want a well defined environment which goes beyond a > default-installation, then yeah, > a VM would be a good solution for *demonstrating* things. But this still > involves more work > then "one-click-installation". Meaning, it's an entriely different problem. > > The configured environment of a VM could allow folks to immediately >> get a better idea lf what is capable. I'd love to see some of Terry's >> custom work available as a Leo file in a VM, > > > What external things do they involve? Databases? Servers? Other > applications? > In this case it would make sense to use a VM for demonstration. > But considering the work involved in setting things up, having a > premade VM does not reduce much of the work for the persons > demonstrating their works. > > I don't particularly like VMs, but I don't know a better way to introduce >> and explain Leo. > > > Well, Apps on mobile plattforms have often some kind of guided or > semi-interactive tutorial. > It's mostly a overlay of pictures which point where you should 'click' to > get this or that, or they > lead you to some predefined scenario to teach the basics. > > And then there is also vim with it's widely loved "vimtutor". > > And lately there is a growing trend of live-coding. People doing their > normal work, capturing > and streaming that to a platform, while parallel people can comment and > ask for things via chat. > > Maybe some Leonidas are interessted in staging some session from time to > time. > > -- > 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 leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. > 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 leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
