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Documentation for Spyder, the Scientific Python Development Environment
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PR: Update install guide to reflect standalone installers and other details #296

Closed CAM-Gerlach closed 2 years ago

CAM-Gerlach commented 2 years ago

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Description of Changes

Adds and updates a number of things in the install guide to reflect the new standalone installers and other issues:

Issue(s) Resolved

Fixes #201 Fixes #237 Fixes #251

CAM-Gerlach commented 2 years ago

Also, related to this but for a separate PR, we should consider backporting the FAQ question on installing new Python packages with standalone Spyder (added in PR #259 and improved in subsequent PRs) to 4.x, since it is fully applicable to both versions and so we can directly link the FAQ questions here instead of just the section, without causing merge conflicts.

CAM-Gerlach commented 2 years ago

Investigating the linkcheck failure, it is apparently due to the Gentoo package site running into issues, which are apparently persisting when I try to access it now (the homepage loads, but no packages are found, and the sub-links down work). If this continues once this is ready, I'll either add an exclusion or remove the link.

CAM-Gerlach commented 2 years ago

@mrclary Do you mind checking over the standalone installers section and double-checking there isn't anything major amiss, and if so marking the conversations as resolved and dropping an approval on here? Thanks!

CAM-Gerlach commented 2 years ago

Thanks @mrclary . Good points; with this change, we do refer to both of those points in the Using Spyder from the standalone installers section and link to the FAQ section that specifically address how to do so.

CAM-Gerlach commented 2 years ago

Thanks @mrclary , merging this.