DOC: Add instructions on installing nightly build wheels

matthewfeickert · matthewfeickert · commit 0f78d7c189ab · 2022-03-30T12:08:50.000-05:00
Describe that the wheels are available on the scipy-wheels-nightly Anaconda Cloud organization (https://anaconda.org/scipy-wheels-nightly) and that a user should use --index-url to install from this package index.
diff --git a/doc/users/installing/index.rst b/doc/users/installing/index.rst
@@ -80,6 +80,20 @@ you can install Matplotlib via your package manager, e.g.:
 
 .. _install_from_source:
 
+==========================
+Installing a nightly build
+==========================
+
+Matplotlib makes nightly development build wheels available on the
+`scipy-wheels-nightly Anaconda Cloud organization
+<https://anaconda.org/scipy-wheels-nightly>`_.
+These wheels can be installed with ``pip`` by specifiying scipy-wheels-nightly
+as the package index to query:
+
+.. code-block:: sh
+
+  python -m pip install --upgrade --index-url https://pypi.anaconda.org/scipy-wheels-nightly/simple matplotlib
+
 ======================
 Installing from source
 ======================
