Hi everyone, Just a follow-up on this thread: Matti and I overhauled the PyPy download experience.
This includes the download button on the main page: https://www.pypy.org/ and the new short-and-to-the-point download page. Thanks, Ram. On Mon, Jun 29, 2020, 16:01 Ram Rachum <r...@rachum.com> wrote: > Awesome. Thanks for the support guys. I've put this on my todo list. > > On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 4:00 PM David Edelsohn <dje....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 3:36 PM Ram Rachum <r...@rachum.com> wrote: >> > >> > Hi everyone! >> > >> > The last week, I've been talking with Matti about ways in which PyPy >> could be friendlier to new users, and what to do about that. One of the >> examples I raised in which PyPy is, in my opinion, giving newbies a hard >> time, is the download page. >> > >> > In my opinion it's way too complicated and not geared for people who >> want to use PyPy but are less knowledgeable, or less interested in putting >> in time to understand the subtleties of JIT vs no-JIT vs STM, etc. >> > >> > We discussed that maybe I should make that change and open a PR for it. >> I said I'm willing to do that, (and learn some Mercurial and Nikita on the >> way) if I know there's general support in this list to that direction of >> change; I expect a code review, but I want to know before I start that this >> change is wanted. >> > >> > Here are a few of the changes I'd like to make: >> > >> > Push the list of binaries to the top. >> > Put Python 3 above Python 2. >> > Move the instructions for building to a separate page. The intersection >> of the set "people who are interested in build instructions" with the set >> "people who have a hard time pressing an additional link to get to the >> build instruction" is very small indeed. >> > I might also put icons of Windows, Mac and Linux near their respective >> binaries. >> > Ideally I would have auto-detection that gives you the binary to your >> OS, but I'm not sure I want to work that hard. >> > >> > You get the general idea: Treating PyPy more like a finished product >> and less like a C library. >> > >> > What do you think? >> >> +1 >> >> - David >> >
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