Yeah, I bet we could get rid of the entire "Installing an official release manually" section, as I assume we don't actually want to recommend that. Also, the "Installing the development version" section outlines a more manual way already.
It makes sense to me to tell people to "install virtualenv" rather than to "install pip". We could might want to link to virtualenv's instructions for installing itself. They show a way of downloading and using virtualenv without root, which some beginners (I'm thinking college students) might not have. https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/latest/installation.html It's worth noting too, that although newer versions of python include pip and venv, some distros have decided not to install pip and venv by default. On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 1:07 PM, Daniele Procida <dani...@vurt.org> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2015, Tim Graham <timogra...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>The install page mentions several different ways to install Django, from >>pip install (recommended), to `setup.py install`, to symlinking the Django >>checkout in your site-packages. Do you see any reason to keep the latter >>methods instead of recommending pip all the time? >> >>https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/topics/install/ > > I can't see any good reason to keep symlink method, but maybe I am missing > something. > > I'd prefer to see the use of virtualenv built-in to the process from the very > start, and a quickstart version of the instructions as the first thing that > people see: > > virtualenv django-virtualenv > source django-virtualenv/bin/activate > pip install django > > I know that's not so simple, and that Windows users need to do something a > bit different, but at least seeing something that simple near the top of the > document would be a promise that installation *can* be that easy. > > Daniele > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/20150925170726.2021833171%40mail.wservices.ch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/CAFO84S7ejDMLkkNZvX0j9ubLPStuVP%3D%3DiWNajb6f78P5e-ANow%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
