Opened at 2012-03-31T05:35:52Z

Closed at 2012-04-01T02:10:01Z

#1702 closed defect (fixed)

quickstart.rst: recommend Python 2.7

Reported by: zooko Owned by: zooko
Priority: normal Milestone: 1.9.2
Component: documentation Version: 1.9.1
Keywords: reviewed Cc:
Launchpad Bug:

Description

I think it is time to recommend Python 2.7 to users who don't have Python already and who don't know what version of Python they want.

Attachments (1)

quickstart-recommend-python-2.7.diff.patch​ (1.1 KB) - added by zooko at 2012-03-31T05:36:01Z.

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Change History (6)

Changed at 2012-03-31T05:36:01Z by zooko

comment:1 Changed at 2012-03-31T05:41:28Z by zooko

  • Keywords review-needed added

comment:2 Changed at 2012-03-31T18:45:50Z by davidsarah

  • Keywords reviewed added; review-needed removed
  • Milestone changed from undecided to 1.9.2
  • Owner changed from somebody to zooko

+1

comment:3 Changed at 2012-03-31T18:48:28Z by davidsarah

We should make sure that the ​compiled dependency table for Python 2.7 is more complete before doing a release, though.

comment:4 Changed at 2012-03-31T19:50:03Z by zooko

Yes, I'm including a plea for contributed binary packages in my "What's going on at Hack Fest" letter than I'm writing.

comment:5 Changed at 2012-04-01T02:10:01Z by zooko@…

  • Resolution set to fixed
  • Status changed from new to closed

In 638dcf867aaf1eb2:

docs: quickstart: edits

  • use out-of-line links to avoid a warning from rst2html --verbose (fixes #1704)
  • reflow to 77 fill-column and prepend utf-8 BOM (fixes #1703)
  • recommend Python 2.7 (fixes #1702)
  • remove link to wiki:AdvancedInstall (fixes #1701)
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