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 <dje....@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 >
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