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lkuper opened this issue May 16, 2012 · 6 comments
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lkuper commented May 16, 2012

https://doc.rust-lang.org/doc/tutorial.html#installation links to the 0.1 tarball. It should probably point to the current release. On that note, it would be nice if there existed a URL that always pointed to the current release.

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Blocked on #2381

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kud1ing commented Jun 1, 2012

I am a bit unhappy that the installation process is described in 4 places:

I propose that we settle on one place only.
I also suggest that we point to binary installers and package managers like brew foremost and reserve compilation instructions for advanced users.

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lkuper commented Jun 22, 2012

The https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Doc-getting-started page that @Lenny222 links to dates back to before we had releases, so the directions given there are how to build from git, not how to install a release. Now that we have releases, I think it makes sense to distinguish between installation instructions for developers and installation instructions for users. That page should therefore probably be in the "Notes" section of the wiki (for developers) and not the "Doc" section (for users). I'll file a separate bug for that.

Aside from that, it's true that there's redundancy between the compilation instructions in the tutorial and those in INSTALL.txt, but I don't think it's a big problem (unless the instructions disagree, of course).

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lkuper commented Jul 5, 2012

So, as of this moment, the tutorial has a link to 0.1, which is old, and wget instructions for 0.3, which doesn't yet exist. I've just pushed a patch that changes both to 0.2, and we can update them both to 0.3 as soon as it sees the light of day.

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lkuper commented Jul 10, 2012

This is the last issue open for 0.3. (Yay!)

How about that URL that always points to the current tarball; is that doable?

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lkuper commented Jul 10, 2012

Closed by 57e160b

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