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Move some advanced documentation away from Installation Guide - #19505
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| For Maptlotlib 3.4 the :ref:`minimum supported versions | ||
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| For Maptlotlib 3.4 the :ref:`minimum supported versions <dependencies>` |
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So does this get manually updated on each new build? (Alt: for the latest release)
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What do you mean by "this"?
This is an API change note, which is specific to the release and does not need update.
The list of dependencies is manually maintained under the link below. It's manually maintained as before. I've only moved it to it's own section instead of having it hidden in the install docs.
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Oh sorry I didn't look at the file name 😅 yeah it's fine then!
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Even though the whole page is about dependencies, IMHO it's slightly better to keep it explicit.
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| Optional dependencies |
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Even for the version distributed on the main conda channel?
I think a sentence about why this info could be useful (so it doesn't confuse folks who don't need to know) could be helpful here.
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Reworded.
Note also, that this is part of the release guide, which states at its top
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@story645 thanks for reviewing! |
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@meeseeksdev backport to v3.4.x |
…rom Installation Guide
…505-on-v3.4.x Backport PR #19505 on branch v3.4.x (Move some advanced documentation away from Installation Guide)
PR Summary
This is a first step for making the Installation Guide less intimidating. More than two screens of installation instructions is really scary, and the information moved within this PR is not needed by 99.999%* of our users.
For easier review, this PR is split in two commits:
(*) Number based on ~10M downloads per month, and I'm quite sure less than less than 100 people per month install C libraries by hand or build conda packages.