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 _______________________________________________ pypy-dev mailing list pypy-dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
