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 ====== SOFALite Notes ======
+===== Changes from SOFA =====
+==== Features ====
+=== Removed ===
+  * No image processing - leave that up to general tools e.g. screen shotting, printing to PDF from web browser etc
+  * No translations - no more _() everywhere, no more packaging .pot files etc, no more having to make strings static
+  * No database connectivity - only one place for SQL - SQLite - so no more config, credentials management etc
+=== Added ===
+  * Support for importing wide format data
+  * Much better interface (always one window open with individual dialogs off that)
+==== Python ====
+Python 3.10 onwards so I can use all the nice new language features e.g. pleasant type hinting, dataclasses etc
+===== Dependencies =====
+==== Minimalism ====
+The fewer the dependencies, and the less they depend on the OS, the easier the packaging.
+In SOFA Statistics, dependencies, especially image-processing dependencies, made it very hard to package cross-platform.
+Minimum:
+  * Python
+  * wxPython - for GUI
+  * matplotlib - for images that overload SVG / JS based toolkits such as Dojo
+  * pandas (inc numpy) - for misc data processing including in core stats engine
+==== Installation ====
 All dependencies are distro / system dependencies, not pip dependencies (even if we develop in a venv).

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