New submission from Skip Montanaro:

I was hunting around the current website for notes on installing Python. 
Couldn't find any (BTW), so I looked in the Python source. Imagine my surprise 
to find two apparently overlapping files describing how to build Python modules:

./Doc/install/index.rst
./Doc/installing/index.rst

The former is marked "Legacy version." The latter seems to cover mostly 
installation of third-party modules using tools like pip. The former covers 
distutils.  Oddly enough, the "legacy" version seems to have been updated more 
recently than the presumably current version. Do we really need to keep both 
versions around at this point? Should they be merged into a single document? If 
they are to both be retained, should the legacy version be marked as such more 
clearly and refer readers to the pip/pyvenv/virtualenv version?

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assignee: docs@python
components: Documentation
messages: 242555
nosy: docs@python, skip.montanaro
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Two versions of instructions for installing Python modules
versions: Python 3.5

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