You are viewing a plain text version of this content. The canonical link for it is here.
Posted to commits@buildstream.apache.org by GitBox <gi...@apache.org> on 2022/08/25 21:41:26 UTC

[GitHub] [buildstream] gtristan commented on a diff in pull request #1741: Update install instructions for final BuildStream 2.0 release

gtristan commented on code in PR #1741:
URL: https://github.com/apache/buildstream/pull/1741#discussion_r955445509


##########
doc/source/main_install.rst:
##########
@@ -130,28 +116,23 @@ Installing BuildStream
 
 Installing from PyPI
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-Once you have the base system dependencies, you can install the BuildStream
-python package as a regular user.
 
-To install from PyPI, you will additionally require:
-
- - pip for python3 (only required for setup)
- - Python 3 development libraries and headers
-
-
-For the latest dev snapshot of BuildStream 2, simply run the following command::
+For the latest pre-release of BuildStream 2, including the necessary Python
+dependencies and BuildBox tools, run the following command::
 
     pip3 install --user --pre BuildStream
 
-This will install latest dev snapshot of BuildStream and its pure python
-dependencies into your user's homedir in ``~/.local``.
+This will install BuildStream and its dependencies into your user's homedir in
+``~/.local``.  Pip will use binary "wheel" packages from PyPI where these are

Review Comment:
   Nit:
   
   > Pip will use binary "wheel" packages from PyPI where these are available for your platform.
   
   Would probably read better with *"if these are available for your platform"* (whereas *"where"* would be more suitable if *"for your platform"* was removed).
   



-- 
This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service.
To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the
URL above to go to the specific comment.

To unsubscribe, e-mail: commits-unsubscribe@buildstream.apache.org

For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at:
users@infra.apache.org