Kevin, I'm forwarding your message to the PythonGtk mailing list for an answer. James has been busy with work or school for the last several months and other PyGtk developers have stepped in to move the ball forward.
Does anyone on the list know the stats for the number of downloads? I could be wrong, but I suspect this is not known because the downloads are from mirrored ftp sites. Also, are Please chime in with any information on applications written in Python or PyGtk that have widespread use. ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: [marketing-python] most popular Python projects Date: Friday 12 March 2004 11:43 am From: "Kevin Altis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "Michael McLay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi James, I'm trying to figure out the most popular Python projects and Michael McLay brought up PyGtk, which I had missed since it isn't hosted at SourceForge, where I did my initial data mining. Based on the number of subscribers to the mailing list, I would say it is quite popular. Do you have any download stats or other info that would help us gauge its popularity? I'm assuming the majority of users are on Linux. Do you have any evidence that people are adopting PyGTK because it is easier to build GUI apps on Linux than using C/C++? Thanks for the info, ka On Mar 12, 2004, at 8:31 AM, Michael McLay wrote: > On Wednesday 10 March 2004 5:58 pm, Kevin Altis wrote: >> This is a long message, if you reply, you'll probably want to <snip> >> the >> parts that don't pertain to your reply... >> >> If you can think of projects that qualify that would be great. It >> would >> probably be useful to track open source and commercial projects where >> Python is used as a scripting or glue language, even if the primary >> app is >> written in another language (e.g. CVSGui projects, Blender, Paint >> Shop Pro >> 8, etc.). >> >> wxPython >> ======== >> http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/index.php? >> report=months&group_id=10718 >> >> Downloads are now consistently over 20K per month. There are 639 >> regular >> subscribers to wxPython-users, and around 275 digest subscribers. >> Robin >> Dunn is the only real developer of wxPython, though there are more on >> the >> wxWidgets side of things and many people like myself that don't do >> much on >> the core, but help out on the Python bits. Boa Constructor, the >> wxPython >> GUI builder gets a few thousand downloads per month. > > PyGtk > ====== > > PyGtk is available through ftp and mirrors which makes it difficult to > count > downloads. Also, since PyGtk is included with the Redhat and Mandrake > distributions, the count would not represent the size of the user > base. The > GUI toolkit is used extensively by Redhat for building the system > administration tools, so counting Redhat installations might be a good > starting number for the userbase. There are 503 regular subscribers > and 75 > digest subscribers. ------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ pygtk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://www.async.com.br/faq/pygtk/
