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
>>>>
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