[PATCH hg-website-content] remove python requirement from main page, moving to downloads page

David Champion dgc at uchicago.edu
Sun Nov 21 12:29:20 CST 2010


# HG changeset patch
# User David Champion <dgc at uchicago.edu>
# Date 1290320566 21600
# Node ID 571b7970a0ba32b912ec07acad337b9d9669656b
# Parent  ef9f1f217c2bd63c340e78c173a3387a97d78a92
remove python requirement from main page, moving to downloads page

There was some discussion of this on mercurial at selenic.com, but with no
consensus.  Since none of the leading binary packages on the web site
(unix-like distros excepted) require a separate Python installation, I
preferred the idea of simply not mentioning the requirement at the main
page.  I've moved it to the downloads page, which allows us to explicate
a bit more as well.

diff -r ef9f1f217c2b -r 571b7970a0ba downloads/index.html
--- a/downloads/index.html	Sat Nov 20 10:47:11 2010 +0100
+++ b/downloads/index.html	Sun Nov 21 00:22:46 2010 -0600
@@ -21,6 +21,17 @@
         {% endfor %}
         </tbody>
     </table>
+
+    <h5>Requirements</h5>
+    <dl>
+      <dt>Python</dt>
+      <dd>Mercurial uses <a href="http://www.python.org">Python</a>
+          (versions <em>2.4</em> through <em>2.7</em>).  Most
+          ready-to-run Mercurial distributions include Python or use
+          the Python that comes with your operating system.  When
+          building from source you should confirm that an appropriate
+          Python version is available.</dd>
+    </dl>
 {% endblock %}
 {% block sidebar %}
     <h3>Get started</h3>




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