Monthly updates as advertising

One reason Leo isn't more widely known is that it isn't widely advertised. Especially now that official versions appear only every 6 to 12 months. The easiest advertising, and perhaps the most effective, are release announcements. If I released a new version of Leo every month that would

Re: Making Leo easier to install

A VM is heavy, and overkill as long as the alternative can provide the same degree of 'just works', which I think is the goal. The VM also offers the benefit of a richer introduction: any number of sample files, videos etc. all as links on the desktop. Right, it wouldn't offer access to host

Re: Making Leo easier to install

VirtualBox is an app you download and install, then you download the VM. VirtualBox runs the VM, offering a desktop which acts like a real computer, so it's still 2 step, but easy to do and a fairly common way to offer configuration-free evaluation of software. Docker is entirely free, not sure

Re: Monthly updates as advertising

Worked wonders for Firefox and Chrome, but both of those already had a significant userbase. On the other hand, the approach they take obsoletes minor versions -- nearly every release is a new major version, often without any super-important or super-visible new features. It feels like

Re: Making Leo easier to install

Hi, Nice to see this finally addressed. I proposed something like Portable Apps packaging for Leo years ago and I think is the best approach for Windows. I tried to show leo to teachers and students and the main problem is installation permissions on windows machines. Having a trouble

Re: Help - can't install

Hi, PyQt4 and PyQt5 packages for python 3.5 aren't released yet but should be available soon. Regards Lewis On Tuesday, October 13, 2015 at 9:13:48 PM UTC+11, Dave Venus wrote: > > > Could not get 64 bit combos working. Or python 3.5. > -- You received this message because you are

Re: Making Leo easier to install

On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 12:09:23 -0500 Kent Tenney wrote: > VirtualBox is an app you download and install, > then you download the VM. > > VirtualBox runs the VM, offering a desktop which acts like a real > computer, so it's still 2 step, but easy to do and a fairly common way >