In a message of Tue, 17 May 2005 00:34:26 +0200, hpk@codespeak.net writes:

Author: hpk Date: Tue May 17 00:34:26 2005 New Revision: 12394

Modified: pypy/dist/pypy/documentation/getting_started.txt Log: issue37 in-progress

introduced the 0.6 release and according explanations into the getting started document. Basically i try to make downloading/unpacking the upcoming 0.6 release an alternative to using an 'svn co' line. Also i tried to avoid all the duplicate information we have everywhere.

Somehow i don't like the very detailed subversion steps anymore. People who don't have subversion are likely to just use the tar/zip files and the others could be pointed to some official subversion documentation. So I think we should further refactor the getting started document accordingly and remove subversion details. This part of the documentation stems from a time where almost nobody had subversion installed except us :-)

Instead of just removing it, can you make it into its own page and give a link to it. The problem is that our documentation on how to install subversion is _better_ than the one at the subversion site (unless that has changed recently). Every time I go someplace that doesn't have subversion, I go to their site, try their instructions, have it _fail_, remember, oh, yes, that's right and then go back to your instructions on how to get subversion which works. I can see the point of simplifying, but if other people have as much trouble as I do installing subversion from sourcen on a site that doesn't have a package manager, they may need our instructions. Laura