[pypy-dev] Changing the PyPy download page

[Ram Rachum]

Awesome. Thanks for the support guys. I've put this on my todo list.

On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 4:00 PM David Edelsohn <dje.gcc at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 3:36 PM Ram Rachum <ram at rachum.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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:
> >
> > Push the list of binaries to the top.
> > Put Python 3 above Python 2.
> > 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.
> > I might also put icons of Windows, Mac and Linux near their respective
> binaries.
> > 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?
>
> +1
>
> - David
>
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