code review 6499053: codereview: advise users to install 'easy_install'.

codereview: advise users to install 'easy_install'.

My first go commit. :)

[adonovan, 2012-08-29 21:21:24]

Hello golang-dev@googlegroups.com (cc: golang-dev@googlegroups.com),

I'd like you to review this change to
https://code.google.com/p/go/

[r, 2012-08-29 21:44:10]

Really? I've found easy-install to not be easy and not install things.

-rob

[adonovan, 2012-08-29 21:52:54]

That may be, but if we are advising people to use it, we may as well
advise them on how to get it.
It wasn't installed on my workstation, for example, and I'd never
heard of it before.

On 29 August 2012 17:44, Rob Pike <r@golang.org> wrote:
> Really? I've found easy-install to not be easy and not install things.
>
> -rob

[r, 2012-08-29 21:53:19]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Alan Donovan <adonovan@google.com> wrote:
> That may be, but if we are advising people to use it, we may as well
> advise them on how to get it.
> It wasn't installed on my workstation, for example, and I'd never
> heard of it before.

That's my point. Is this the best way?

-rob

[rh, 2012-08-30 02:37:11]

The Go documentation at  http://golang.org/doc/install/source#mercurial 
suggests downloading Mercurial from  http://mercurial.selenic.com/downloads/

Would that make more sense?

On Wednesday, August 29, 2012 4:53:21 PM UTC-5, Rob Pike wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Alan Donovan
<adon...@google.com<javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
> > That may be, but if we are advising people to use it, we may as well 
> > advise them on how to get it. 
> > It wasn't installed on my workstation, for example, and I'd never 
> > heard of it before. 
>
> That's my point. Is this the best way? 
>
> -rob 
>

[rh, 2012-08-30 02:44:35]

(as the only option suggested)

On Wednesday, August 29, 2012 9:37:11 PM UTC-5, rh wrote:
>
> The Go documentation at  http://golang.org/doc/install/source#mercurial 
> suggests downloading Mercurial from  
> http://mercurial.selenic.com/downloads/
>
> Would that make more sense?
>
> On Wednesday, August 29, 2012 4:53:21 PM UTC-5, Rob Pike wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Alan Donovan <adon...@google.com> 
>> wrote: 
>> > That may be, but if we are advising people to use it, we may as well 
>> > advise them on how to get it. 
>> > It wasn't installed on my workstation, for example, and I'd never 
>> > heard of it before. 
>>
>> That's my point. Is this the best way? 
>>
>> -rob 
>>
>

[r, 2012-08-30 04:54:45]

Yes. Don't use easy_install. Let's fix it that way instead, to agree
with the mercurial documentation.

-rob

[rh, 2012-09-29 22:14:43]

adonovan, are you still interested in completing this CL?  I'd be happy to, if
not.

[rsc, 2012-10-01 19:16:59]

not lgtm

We decided not to advise the use of easy_install. It used to be there but it is
gone now. The copy there was too old: best to get it straight from the Mercurial
site.

[remyoudompheng, 2012-10-01 19:36:00]

It seems like gocodereview doesn't recognize the lowercase "not 1gtm"

[adonovan, 2012-10-01 19:38:15]

Robert, thanks for your offer; if you'd like to take it, please be my
guest.   This CL has been languishing because it's not close to the
top of my list of priorities and I haven't had a chance to test out an
alternative sequence of commands that actually works on a clean
machine.

rsc: don't worry, I realise this is ¬LGTM.

On 1 October 2012 15:16,  <rsc@golang.org> wrote:
> not lgtm
>
> We decided not to advise the use of easy_install. It used to be there
> but it is gone now. The copy there was too old: best to get it straight
> from the Mercurial site.
>
>
> https://codereview.appspot.com/6499053/

[rh, 2012-10-02 15:35:33]

Thank you.  I have created http://codereview.appspot.com/6584059

On 2012/10/01 19:38:15, adonovan wrote:
> Robert, thanks for your offer; if you'd like to take it, please be my
> guest.   This CL has been languishing because it's not close to the
> top of my list of priorities and I haven't had a chance to test out an
> alternative sequence of commands that actually works on a clean
> machine.
> 
> rsc: don't worry, I realise this is ¬LGTM.
> 
> On 1 October 2012 15:16,  <mailto:rsc@golang.org> wrote:
> > not lgtm
> >
> > We decided not to advise the use of easy_install. It used to be there
> > but it is gone now. The copy there was too old: best to get it straight
> > from the Mercurial site.
> >
> >
> > https://codereview.appspot.com/6499053/

[adonovan, 2013-01-15 22:10:35]

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