[Distutils] Deleting legacy contents from core install guide?

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sun Feb 23 12:43:15 CET 2014


I finally started working on the docs.python.org updates for PEP 453
tonight, and I'm just not seeing much salvageable information in
http://docs.python.org/3/install/index.html.

While it was a big step forward back in 1998, it seems to me that it
has simply been left unmaintained for too long, and I think leaving
that content in there for 3.4 will do more harm than good. The content
won't be lost: not only will it continue to exist in source control,
but I won't be touching the 2.x docs at
http://docs.python.org/2/install/index.html.

With that content gone from the end user installation guide in 3.4+,
it can become just a very, very simple introduction to the core pip
commands, and then a reference out to the packaging user guide for
more info.

Thoughts?

Cheers,
Nick.

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Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia


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