Opened 23 months ago

Last modified 22 months ago

#8917 enhancement new

Website should mention `pip install twisted[tls]`

Reported by: Tim D. Smith Owned by:
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Component: website Keywords:
Cc: oubiwann Branch:
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Description (last modified by Tim D. Smith)

  1. The downloads page doesn't mention pip. Maybe it should, since that's how many people will want to fetch and install Twisted.
  1. The ability to run pip install twisted[tls] to concomitantly install pyOpenSSL and friends isn't mentioned anywhere that I found and it's a very helpful incantation; I think it would also be a good thing to have on the Download page.

Change History (3)

comment:1 Changed 23 months ago by DefaultCC Plugin

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comment:2 Changed 23 months ago by Tim D. Smith

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comment:3 Changed 22 months ago by Chris Wolfe

Hi tdsmith,

Thanks for filing this issue! There is documentation detailing how to install twisted's extra dependencies, including tls in the docs at ​http://twisted.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation/howto/optional.html. But, I'm sorry that it wasn't very easy to find!

I'll ask in #twisted-dev how to best move forward with a request like this since (a) it would require changes to the actual twisted-matrix site and I'm not sure how those are enacted (my guess would be modifying our trac instance?) and (b) might require reorganizing the documentation detailing twisted's extra dependency groups.

I'd also second the desire to put installation instructions using pip on the project's landing page. This would be an excellent place to link to the docs that detail twisted's extra dependency groups.

Thanks again! derwolfe

Last edited 22 months ago by Chris Wolfe (previous) (diff)
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