[pypy-dev] newbie needs pypy setup help

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 10:03 PM, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche at pobox.com> wrote:
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> Maciej Fijalkowski Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:07:17 +0200
>>>> as far as I understood, the tarballs are for [extracting] in-place not
>>>> for installs without serious massaging
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> Tom Roche Sun, 31 Jul 2011 15:44:55 -0400
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>>> Not so much massage is required (e.g., my bash script from
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>>> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pypy-dev/2011-July/007893.html
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>>> does it, as does Dan Stromberg's @
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>>> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pypy-dev/2011-July/007894.html
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>>> ) but It Would Be Nice for new adopters if the download page
>>> documented things like this, esp if intentional.
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> Maciej Fijalkowski Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:47:16 +0200
>> Cool, feel like providing a patch?
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> To the build or the doc?

To the doc. We have a wiki on bitbucket (apparently underused)

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> Regarding the latter, have youse thought about a wiki, or other vehicle for user-contributed doc? Minimally, you could point to
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> http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyPy
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> and have folks work there. Currently it says
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> http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyPy
>> Please refer to the PyPy home page and development site
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> (which appear to be the same page)
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>> for more information about this Python implementation.
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> which (IMHO, YMMV) kinda discourages putting more information on that wiki.
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> FWIW, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche at pobox.com>
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