[RFC] Website refresh for 2.0.0

[Martin Pool]

2009/9/27 Ian Clatworthy <ian.clatworthy at canonical.com>:
> Ben Finney wrote:
>
>> The “Get” icons are much better with clearly-distinct decorations. Thank
>> you! (The “Get going” icon looks unfortunately phallic, but maybe that's
>> just my current frame of mind.)
>
> Improved now.
>
>> Today's nit to pick: “Bazaar runs on Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and
>> UNIX. Its only requirement is Python 2.4.”
>
> I think this text needs changing. It ought to list more platforms
> explicitly (e.g. Ubuntu/Debian) and link directly from each one to the
> platform-specific download page.

I think we could just drop this: Bazaar runs on most platforms where
people do software development.  The more interesting thing, and the
more active limit at the moment, is going to be whether it works with
your development setup or your IDE or etc.  The fact that Bazaar runs
on different OSs is a good thing to convey through the screenshot
carousel.

> I also think the reference to Python could be removed altogether at this
> level. Currently, it indirectly implies users need to install Python
> when it's bundled in the Windows installer and already there in a
> suitable version in 90% of other major OS platforms. Does anyone think
> we need to mention Python 2.4 here?

I was just going to say the same thing.  Also, if you are building
from scratch from source, you probably will want more than just
python.



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Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>