On 3 June 2014 10:49, Noah Kantrowitz <n...@coderanger.net> wrote: > Step one, define "popular" in numeric terms.
"Most depended on", but that's currently a pain to extract. Making it easier to do that kind of analysis is actually one of my goals for metadata 2.0. Sites like http://pythonwheels.com/ use "most downloaded" because it's readily available, rather than because it's a particularly good metric - that's part of the reason why PyPI doesn't offer sorting by download count natively (the other part is because the current focus of PyPI development is the migration from the current legacy code base to Warehouse). One key issue with "most downloaded" is the fact that it overweights direct downloads from PyPI by automated testing and deployment systems. Anyone using a local caching proxy (which is the recommended approach), relying on a Python redistributor (like a Linux distro, or folks like ActiveState/Enthought/Continuum) or otherwise using third party Windows installers doesn't show up in the download stats. Cheers, Nick. P.S. For folks using Django, grids on Django Packages (e.g. https://www.djangopackages.com/grids/g/rest/) can be a much better way to find packages to use than looking directly on PyPI. I believe there are OpenComparison based sites for some other Python subcommunities as well. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
