On Mon, 27 Nov 2017 12:24:31 -0500
Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 27/11/17 11:24, Terry Brown wrote:
> > On Mon, 27 Nov 2017 06:54:03 -0800
> > Chris George <[email protected]> wrote:
> >  
> >> Installing Anaconda just works.  
> > In the list of installation options, we could maybe characterize
> > them in a few words, e.g. for Anaconda, "larger download, but this
> > is the option that 'just works'".
> >
> > Cheers -Terry
> >  
> So, the characterization for Miniconda would be: 'Small download (60
> mb) and is the option that "just works")'.

:-) maybe.  To be honest I've only used conda (the package manager) from
the command line, so I really don't know what installing Leo's
dependencies looks like to a non-command line user.  I think Anaconda
and miniconda might differ in that respect, I know Anaconda installs
some sort of dashboard / point and click package management front end
that I think is absent from miniconda.

Definitions:

conda: a package manager
miniconda: a minimal Python install using conda.  Intended use is
deployment of isolated Python environments with different sets of
dependencies:
  https://conda.io/docs/user-guide/tasks/manage-environments.html
Anaconda: a large ecosystem of scientific analysis software (including
Jupyter notebooks and the Spyder Python IDE) deployed using conda.

>From a non-command line perspective I wonder if Anaconda really just
channels people into Jupyter/Spyder - probably just a matter of time
before we spend a week trying to understand a bug before we realize the
user has confused Spyder and Leo :-)

But I guess we can label miniconda "just works" if we link to clear
step by step instructions for using it on Leo's web page.

Cheers -Terry

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