Re: Changing the PyPy download page

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On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 7:31 PM Ram Rachum <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 3:36 PM Ram Rachum <[email protected]> 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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