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:
1. Push the list of binaries to the top.
2. Put Python 3 above Python 2.
3. 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.
4. I might also put icons of Windows, Mac and Linux near their
respective binaries.
5. 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?
Thanks,
Ram.
