Docs: Recommended installation method on Windows

[danmichaelo]

Hi, the docs starts by stating that "Windows is a first-class citizen, in our world." Which is great! But then goes on (under "Install Pipenv Today!") to describe how to install it on Mac and on Linux, but not on Windows :D

Even the install page only mentions Windows under the heading "Pragmatic Installation of Pipenv", but this section recommends using the --user flag with pip install. There is actually no mention of installing pipenv using pip install without the --user flag. Is there a reason for that or is it just accidentally?

And is using pip install the recommended way of installing pipenv on Windows?

I'm happy to help out improving the docs if needed.

[sunoru]

I'm having the same question! It would be really good if the recommended way of installing pipenv on Windows was stated clearly in the docs.

[patrikhuber]

Haha! I am so glad that you guys had exactly the same experience as I did in #4098! (I am closing my issue as a duplicate in favour of this one.)

Please do improve this, the state of affairs for Windows is certainly not "first-class citizen" (more details in #4098).

[matteius]

I have been working on pipenv lately and since I have 3 Windows systems I use I've gotten some good tips/tricks that I should compile at some point to improve the documentation. That is why I have it assigned to myself for now.

[matteius]

For a while I was sure I was preferring the windows install of python, until Windows updates continued to leave things in a bad state for my PATH so I've switched back to the official python.org installers. We are doing more work on the docs soon so hopefully we can get some better information out there in front of folks.

[matteius]

Recommended install is to use pip install pipenv --upgrade -- I've recently switched away from the windows store python installers because the updates would continue to break/change my paths, so installing from python.org has been preferable to me.