On Jul 15, 2013, at 6:39 PM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: >> There is something like 200 total bdist_msi on PyPI and 5k bdist_wininst. > >> To put numbers into perspective, there are ~180k total files uploaded to >> PyPI. > > I don't hink this means that the installers aren't widely used, I > think it mean they aren't distributed on PyPI. > > Installers are really useful for packages that require compiled code > that depends on external libs -- and most of the major such package > maintainers provide them. > > Also, numbers aren't as important as the handful of widely used, but > hard to build, packages.... > > But they are useless with virtualenv, so I'm looking forward to binary > wheels... > > -Chris > > > -- > > Christopher Barker, Ph.D. > Oceanographer > > Emergency Response Division > NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice > 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax > Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception > > chris.bar...@noaa.gov > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig Sorry I should be more clear :) I wasn't claiming they weren't used (In fact I would guess but without looking that those 5k probably have a good bit of downloads). Just making a statement as to how many of them exist on PyPI. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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