Opened 10 years ago

Closed 10 years ago

Last modified 10 years ago

#22235 closed Cleanup/optimization (fixed)

pip can install from tarballs as well

Reported by: omer.drow@… Owned by: gregloy
Component: *.djangoproject.com Version:
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: yes
Easy pickings: yes UI/UX: no

Description

The download page recommends downloading the tarball and unpacking it and running setup.py.
There's no reason to do so anymore since pip can install python packages from tarballs.
The documentation should be changed in my opinion.

Change History (6)

comment:1 by Marc Tamlyn, 10 years ago

Component: Documentation*.djangoproject.com
Triage Stage: UnreviewedAccepted

Assuming there are no reasons why this might be more insecure (which I personally don't see) I agree that for alphas/betas using pip to install them is much easier.

The relevant source code is actually in the djangoproject.com repository - https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/blob/master/templates/releases/download.html#L28-30

comment:3 by gregloy, 10 years ago

Owner: changed from nobody to gregloy
Status: newassigned

comment:4 by Baptiste Mispelon, 10 years ago

Patch needs improvement: set

As noted in the pull request, you also need to modify the settings to activate the request context processor so that the request object is available in the context.

I would also suggest that we only keep install instructions with pip and get rid of the tar xvzf ... ones (both for stable and preview versions).

comment:5 by gregloy, 10 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: assignedclosed

comment:6 by Baptiste Mispelon <bmispelon@…>, 10 years ago

In 11562ec114a7a94c8e979bbe90111c7964b5cb7a/djangoproject.com:

Fixed #22235 -- recommend pip install from url

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