astropy/astropy — pull request #121 by mdboom (2012-01-06 19:19:41+00:00)
Title: Add basic installation documentation.

@perry pointed out to me that we don't have any sort of basic documentation about building and installing astropy. While it mostly follows the standard distutils model, and there's bits of some of this information scattered around the docs, I still think it's useful to have really basic information all in one place.

I think we should push to merge sooner rather than later -- someone coming cold to the project would still appreciate this even though it's incomplete.

I've tried to keep this as generic as possible and not get too down in the weeds. I chose to link to, rather than explain, how to install the third-party dependencies for example, since there's so many ways one may wish to do that. Of course, down the road we may want to write platform-specific guides to getting everything going for complete Python beginners, but I'm not sure that belongs here. That's, of course, open to discussion.