On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Leonardo Santagada <santag...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sep 14, 2009, at 4:19 PM, Jesse Noller wrote: > >> How is there any harm in offering 3 downloads? The obvious thing is to >> click on the big "get some pythons on" button which gets what we know >> as python today. > > Confusing the hell out of users. Right now there is a lot more links on the > download page than it should (why offer both a tar.gz and a bz2 on the main > download page?). Another improvement would be to divide it by operating > system with an icon (and name, just the icon or the name is not enough to > most people). But this is of topic.
The python.org website should be redesigned, completely. But then again, that's something for another thread ;) It's also not a fundamental issue for this thread. > 2) Having different python versions with various levels of completeness, > which could be broken in two: > a) only on the repository > b) offer different distributions on the main python site (-1) Modulo a cleaner, simpler download page: Is it still -1? I plan on bringing up the website design elsewhere, as that was another thing at pycon 2009 which was brought up, but failed to escape the atmosphere. jesse _______________________________________________ stdlib-sig mailing list stdlib-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/stdlib-sig
