Rewrite prerequisites section of index.rst.

Remove redundant parts of README; link to tornadoweb.org instead.

README.rst

@@ -9,29 +9,11 @@ can scale to tens of thousands of open connections, making it ideal for
 `WebSockets <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSocket>`_, and other
 applications that require a long-lived connection to each user.
 
-
-Upgrade notes
--------------
-
-As of Tornado 3.2, the `backports.ssl_match_hostname
-<https://pypi.python.org/pypi/backports.ssl_match_hostname>`_ package
-must be installed when running Tornado on Python 2.  This will be
-installed automatically when using ``pip`` or ``easy_install``.
-
-Quick links
------------
-
-* `Documentation <http://www.tornadoweb.org/en/stable/>`_
-* `Source (github) <https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado>`_
-* `Mailing list <http://groups.google.com/group/python-tornado>`_
-* `Stack Overflow <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/tornado>`_
-* `Wiki <https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/wiki/Links>`_
-
 Hello, world
 ------------
 
 Here is a simple "Hello, world" example web app for Tornado:
-    
+
 .. code-block:: python
 
     import tornado.ioloop
@@ -55,84 +37,8 @@ This example does not use any of Tornado's asynchronous features; for
 that see this `simple chat room
 <https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/tree/stable/demos/chat>`_.
 
-Installation
+Documentation
-------------
+-------------
 
-**Automatic installation**::
+Documentation and links to additional resources are available at
-
+http://www.tornadoweb.org
-    pip install tornado
-
-Tornado is listed in `PyPI <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/tornado/>`_ and
-can be installed with ``pip`` or ``easy_install``.  Note that the
-source distribution includes demo applications that are not present
-when Tornado is installed in this way, so you may wish to download a
-copy of the source tarball as well.
-
-**Manual installation**: Download the latest source from `PyPI
-<http://pypi.python.org/pypi/tornado/>`_.
-
-.. parsed-literal::
-
-    tar xvzf tornado-$VERSION.tar.gz
-    cd tornado-$VERSION
-    python setup.py build
-    sudo python setup.py install
-
-The Tornado source code is `hosted on GitHub
-<https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado>`_.
-
-**Prerequisites**: Tornado runs on Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, and 3.4.  It
-requires the `certifi <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/certifi>`_ package
-on all Python versions, and the `backports.ssl_match_hostname
-<https://pypi.python.org/pypi/backports.ssl_match_hostname>`_ package
-on Python 2.  These will be installed automatically when using
-``pip`` or ``easy_install``).  Some Tornado features may
-require one of the following optional libraries:
-
-* `unittest2 <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/unittest2>`_ is needed to run
-  Tornado's test suite on Python 2.6 (it is unnecessary on more recent
-  versions of Python)
-* `concurrent.futures <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/futures>`_ is the
-  recommended thread pool for use with Tornado and enables the use of
-  ``tornado.netutil.ThreadedResolver``.  It is needed only on Python 2;
-  Python 3 includes this package in the standard library.
-* `pycurl <http://pycurl.sourceforge.net>`_ is used by the optional
-  ``tornado.curl_httpclient``.  Libcurl version 7.18.2 or higher is required;
-  version 7.21.1 or higher is recommended.
-* `Twisted <http://www.twistedmatrix.com>`_ may be used with the classes in
-  `tornado.platform.twisted`.
-* `pycares <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pycares>`_ is an alternative
-  non-blocking DNS resolver that can be used when threads are not
-  appropriate.
-* `Monotime <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Monotime>`_ adds support for
-  a monotonic clock, which improves reliability in environments
-  where clock adjustments are frequent.  No longer needed in Python 3.3.
-
-**Platforms**: Tornado should run on any Unix-like platform, although
-for the best performance and scalability only Linux (with ``epoll``)
-and BSD (with ``kqueue``) are recommended for production deployment
-(even though Mac OS X is derived from BSD and supports kqueue, its
-networking performance is generally poor so it is recommended only for
-development use).  Tornado will also run on Windows, although this
-configuration is not officially supported and is recommended only for
-development use.
-
-Discussion and support
-----------------------
-
-You can discuss Tornado on `the Tornado developer mailing list
-<http://groups.google.com/group/python-tornado>`_, and report bugs on
-the `GitHub issue tracker
-<https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/issues>`_.  Links to additional
-resources can be found on the `Tornado wiki
-<https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/wiki/Links>`_. New releases are
-announced on the `announcements mailing list
-<http://groups.google.com/group/python-tornado-announce>`_.
-
-
-Tornado is available under
-the `Apache License, Version 2.0
-<http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html>`_.
-
-This web site and all documentation is licensed under `Creative
-Commons 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/>`_.

docs/index.rst

@@ -79,13 +79,12 @@ copy of the source tarball as well.
 The Tornado source code is `hosted on GitHub
 <https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado>`_.
 
-**Prerequisites**: Tornado runs on Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, and 3.4.  It
+**Prerequisites**: Tornado 4.3 runs on Python 2.6, 2.7, and 3.2+
-requires the `certifi <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/certifi>`_ package
+(support for Python 2.6 and 3.2 is deprecated and will be removed in
-on all Python versions, and the `backports.ssl_match_hostname
+the next release). For Python 2, version 2.7.9 or newer is *strongly*
-<https://pypi.python.org/pypi/backports.ssl_match_hostname>`_ package
+recommended for the improved SSL support. In addition to the requirements
-on Python 2.  These will be installed automatically when using
+which will be installed automatically by ``pip`` or ``setup.py install``,
-``pip`` or ``easy_install``).  Some Tornado features may
+the following optional packages may be useful:
-require one of the following optional libraries:
 
 * `unittest2 <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/unittest2>`_ is needed to run
   Tornado's test suite on Python 2.6 (it is unnecessary on more recent
@@ -95,7 +94,7 @@ require one of the following optional libraries:
   `~tornado.netutil.ThreadedResolver`.  It is needed only on Python 2;
   Python 3 includes this package in the standard library.
 * `pycurl <http://pycurl.sourceforge.net>`_ is used by the optional
-  ``tornado.curl_httpclient``.  Libcurl version 7.18.2 or higher is required;
+  ``tornado.curl_httpclient``.  Libcurl version 7.19.3.1 or higher is required;
   version 7.21.1 or higher is recommended.
 * `Twisted <http://www.twistedmatrix.com>`_ may be used with the classes in
   `tornado.platform.twisted`.