On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 8:17 AM, Terry Brown <[email protected]> wrote:

I'm not saying that Anaconda / Miniconda shouldn't be suggested *among*
> the options, they just shouldn't be presented as the only option,
> just as getting Leo from git shouldn't be the only option.
>

​Perfectly reasonable.​

I think it comes down to what filter we're trying to apply to incoming
> users.  Python devs only?  Or all comers, even writers ;-)
>

​Imo, the focus should be on making things as simple as possible for
non-technical people​, such as writers.

In fact, I think scientists qualify, in general, as non-technical people,
which is why the Anaconda distro makes sense for IPython.  It saves a lot
of install headaches later.

Matt's pip install seems to get Leo running with minimal effort, as
> long as you use Python 3.
> ​... But the important thing is
> that it gets Leo running so the user has a chance to see it rather than
> just drifting on to something that's easier to install.
>

​That's what we want, surely.​

Spelling and formatting rst aren't critical to demoing Leo - Leo should
> start with nothing more than PyQt, as far as I'm aware.
>

​I agree.

Edward

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