Hi,

I coined the term "pocket infrastructures" for the ones which are
self-contained, simple and can run from USB drives to humble laptops and
anything in between and beyond. Now my combination includes:

- Pandoc: ~ 15 Mb, For markup processing and conversion.
- Fossil; ~ 3 Mb, kind of a "GitHub in a box" and totally distributed,
providing DVCS, tickets (issues), wiki and embedded web server.
- Sqlite: ~1 Mb, for data manipulation and spreadsheet related task.
- Grafoscopio / Pharo: 164 Mb  Development environment including live
coding, source code manager, data visualization & interactive
notebooks/outlines.

So, is nice to have such set of well diverse but coupled tasks covered
under 200 Mb, compared with the alternatives these days. Even, complex
data intensive research, like the Panama Papers, can be approached by
these "pocket infrastructures" as shown in [1].

BTW, Leo Editor was recently mentioned in a talk about metasystems for
reproducible research [2]

[1] http://mutabit.com/offray/blog/en/entry/panama-papers-1
[2] https://twitter.com/khinsen/status/938834204892254208

Cheers,

Offray

On 07/12/17 20:22, Zoom.Quiet wrote:
> 42M Leo-5.4
> not include Py 2.7.10 + PyQt ...ect.
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 8:46 AM, Matt Wilkie <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> For anyone wondering what you could possibly do with a 20 Mb drive,
>>> apps. and games were all much less than 1 Mb back then, so it was quite
>>> useful.
>> The most amazing program under 1mb I ever encountered was World Construction
>> Set. At a time when the expensive GIS software used to make our daily bread
>> came on 20 to 30 floppy disks (~1995), depending on extensions, it showed up
>> in a measly cardboard envelope, and blew my socks off. It could render a 3D
>> perspective view of rocks, trees, clouds, distance haze and more from
>> real-world spatial data while said expensive GIS software could only draw
>> wire frames.
>> http://www.maphew.com/archive/patawi/matt/polargeo/gallery/3D/Minto_View2.htm
>>
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