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Update installation documentation #6154
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One suggestion made in #6051 was to update the installation section of the documentation to focus on anaconda for new users; see #6051 (comment) for the one idea for doing that. It was clear this topic needed more discussion, so was dropped in #6051.
The purpose of this issue is to remind to update the installation documentation at some point..
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pllim commentedon Jun 15, 2017
I doubt anyone is going to get this done by tomorrow, so removing milestone.
bsipocz commentedon Jun 15, 2017
@pllim - docs and bugfixes can be backported before the actual release.
bsipocz commentedon Jun 30, 2017
This is actually a duplication of #1807, but I go ahead and close that one as it's burried under tons of other issues.
KING-SID commentedon Feb 3, 2019
Hey! I am new to the astropy developers community and open source. Given that this issue is still open, I'd like to take a crack at it as I recently went through the installation docs myself just recently and faced the issue first hand. I can offer the first time installer perspective on this issue. I've been told how I can work on this, getting straight to it!
kakirastern commentedon Feb 5, 2019
Hi @KING-SID, I have opened a PR #8385 to address this issue regarding the development workflow parts... Maybe this issue is overlapping with Issue #7287 as well as Issue #8289, as the installation with Python 2.x is being phased out and Python 3.x is now the default version?
kakirastern commentedon Feb 5, 2019
@KING-SID So a PR can be opened that deals with installation issues in other areas of the AstroPy website, as long as it is not part of development workflow... at least for now, as I am working on it.
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KING-SID commentedon Feb 6, 2019
@bsipocz Thanks for the heads up!
kakirastern commentedon Mar 9, 2019
Hi, can I help by updating the installation docs as suggested in #6051 (comment)?
astrojuanlu commentedon Oct 4, 2020
If @taldcroft suggestion of putting conda first and pip second still stands, then https://docs.astropy.org/en/latest/install.html#using-conda should come before https://docs.astropy.org/en/latest/install.html#using-pip.
CosmicTiger commentedon Oct 21, 2020
Assign to me this issue. I'll work on it.
embray commentedon Apr 22, 2021
The installation page for SciPy is nice and pretty succinct: http://scipy.github.io/devdocs/getting_started.html One thing I might do is emphasizing venv as an option when using pip, or
pip install --user. Not sure.SauravMaheshkar commentedon Dec 14, 2021
Should this issue still be open ?
mwcraig commentedon Dec 14, 2021
I think it should still be open since #10919 was never merged. Will try to take a look on Thursday.
exitflynn commentedon Jan 6, 2023
HI there! So... should the issue still be open? :P
astrojuanlu commentedon Jan 6, 2023
Been almost 6 years since opening the issue. Is the stance of the project still that conda should come first? In #10919 there was some debate about it. If it has to be done, essentially #10919 should be repeated. If not, this issue should be closed IMO.
pllim commentedon Jan 23, 2023
Hah, I really don't want another debate on pip vs conda... I'll slap a "Close?" label on this issue and see what happens. Thanks for the ping. 😉
github-actions commentedon Jan 24, 2023
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mwcraig commentedon Jan 24, 2023
I think it is fine to close -- happily, binary distributions are much more widely available now outside of conda.