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-rw-r--r--doc/install.rst15
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/AUTHORS.txt b/AUTHORS.txt
index a42163c9..19401a54 100644
--- a/AUTHORS.txt
+++ b/AUTHORS.txt
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ George Paci
George Song
Greg Rogers
Guillaume Chazarain
+Ilia Meerovich
Imri Goldberg
Ionel Cristian Mărieș
JT Olds
diff --git a/doc/install.rst b/doc/install.rst
index ab7673d9..55273e6f 100644
--- a/doc/install.rst
+++ b/doc/install.rst
@@ -57,18 +57,19 @@ The alternate old-school technique is:
.. __: coverage_pypi_
-Installing dependencies for CTracer (a C extension for speed).
-----------------------
+Installing dependencies
+-----------------------
-Coverage.py includes a C extension for speed. It is recommended to use this extension if you are working with multiprocessed/multithreaded Python applications.
-You may need to install the python-dev and gcc support files before installing coverage via pip,
-for example::
+Coverage.py includes a C extension for speed. It is strongly recommended to use
+this extension: it is much faster, and is needed to support a number of
+coverage.py features. You may need to install the python-dev and gcc support
+files before installing coverage via pip. The exact commands depend on which
+package manager you use on your operating system, which Python version you are
+using, and on the names of the packages for your distribution. For example::
$ sudo apt-get install python-dev gcc
$ sudo yum install python-devel gcc
-or for Python 3.x::
-
$ sudo apt-get install python3-dev gcc
$ sudo yum install python3-devel gcc