Re: Changing the PyPy download page
Ram Rachum <[email protected]>
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That is true and I've seen it on my computer too. However, it's not related to our change. Open a ticket. On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 6:22 PM Phyo Arkar <[email protected]> wrote: > the image is out of place , on 4k laptop. > > [image: image.png] > > 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 >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >> pypy-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev >> > _______________________________________________ pypy-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
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