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Documentation for trying the development version of Astropy ignores virtual environments #11207

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I am trying to contribute to AstroPy. The tutorial, "Try the Development Version"
https://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/development/workflow/get_devel_version.html#get-devel
shows a method to switch over to the development version, but warns against doing so, and says that using python virtual environments is a much better choice. It then links to a general article about virtual environments for astropy, https://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/development/workflow/virtual_pythons.html#virtual-envs, that doesn't help with the specific case of making a virtual environment for astropy development testing.

It would be much better if the "Try the development version" tutorial just showed how to do so using virtual environments, since that's the recommended method.

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