#16205: Beginners install guide for Windows
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Reporter: erlingbo | Owner:
Type: New feature | Status: new
Milestone: | Component: Documentation
Version: SVN | Severity: Normal
Resolution: | Keywords: install, windows
Triage Stage: Accepted | Has patch: 1
Needs documentation: 0 | Needs tests: 0
Patch needs improvement: 1 | Easy pickings: 0
UI/UX: 0 |
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Comment (by mtredinnick):
A couple of comments based on reading about a billion emails from Windows
people making all kinds of errors:
1. This needs to be tested on a few different versions of Windows.
Unsurprisingly, not everybody runs the latest version. The documentation
needs to mention which versions the instructions are for. At a minimum, I
would think Windows 7 and Vista are needed.
2. Prefer pip as much as possible (although to bootstrap it, you need
easy-install). It is a much better habit to get into.
3. Try to write the instructions so that they work for non-admin users if
at all possible.
4. Find some willing friends, colleagues, people who owe you something,
mailing list compadres, ... anybody you can to test it from a clean slate.
It took us a lot of attempts to even get the instructions correct for how
to make "python django-admin.py" work correctly across multiple Windows
versions in earlier documentation. There is a distinct lack of consistency
(or sanity) involved.
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