On 2/6/2012 8:17 PM, Martijn Faassen wrote:
The hosting-repository service was added later -- as a
convenience firstly to authors. I now believe that the repository should
have been and should be kept separate, as the Python Package Repository
-- PyPaR. Then repository issues would be clearly separate from index
issues.
...
Anyway, if that had happened,
And I think it still should...
> I think you would get people recommending
that people put stuff both in the index and in the repository for the
convenience of the users. And authors might want an integrated UI to
manage things too. :)
Of course, uploading would mean being part of the index, just as today.
But I would hope that such a separation would avert the calls to
restrict the index. I think that would be destructive. If it were to
occur, surely someone else would set a new index to Python packages that
is at least as inclusive as PyPI is today.
Oh, and about PyPI download statistics, the original subject of this
thread:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/numpy/1.6.1
says numpy1.6.1 has 50000 downloads since last July.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy/?source=directory
says 9000 just last week. So counting only PyPI downloads gives an
undercount by a factor of perhaps 5.
Or http://pypi.python.org/pypi/MySQL-python/1.2.3
275K downloads since 2010 July versus
http://sourceforge.net/directory/os:windows/?q=python
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python/?source=directory
115K downloads per week (down to 96K last week)
--
Terry Jan Reedy
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