as people like to compare languages take ruby for example (i am confident that there will be no flame war here ;) )
we have PyPI they have RAA we have ? they have rubyforge i am seeing the rubyforge site now on my other tab, i find Communications (365 projects) Database (245 projects) Desktop Environment (80 projects) Education (81 projects) Games/Entertainment (225 projects) Internet (1339 projects) Multimedia (296 projects) Office/Business (226 projects) Other/Nonlisted Topic (82 projects) Printing (23 projects) Religion (7 projects) Scientific/Engineering (278 projects) Security (86 projects) Sociology (16 projects) Software Development (1164 projects) System (548 projects) Terminals (37 projects) Text Editors (136 projects) these are the ongoing library development. although they are small in number but it is put very clear. in python the only way i have found about the libraries we have is by using the doc (docs is great at this). but i find less/no details about standalone/libraries that are not part of python stdlib. (google is great at this) lets take RAA now, By Category Application 114 subcategories 553 projects Documentation 14 subcategories 31 projects Library 150 subcategories 1179 projects Ports 8 subcategories 10 projects * By Project(ALL): 286 subcategories, 1773 projects * By Owner: 905 owners first of all they can never ever beat python's record of packages. its funny i found a ruby project in pypi. on further inspection [rython 0.0.1] a library module for coding in ruby inside python code transparently... how awesome..! its happy to see that libraries already has taken the add-on feature. sad to see libraries mixed up with software packages (no one will find about the library amidst those 1000's of software! packaging libraries has some other advantages too, like accumulation of ideas happen. what if i design a *library* and no one uses it? whats the point in creating? but if i could upload that in pypi or something like that, also one python core active developer has had a look in to that, and might one day be integrated with the standard modules..! the best thing for now i propose is that segregating libraries and applications in pypi. if thats a first stage bring about an awesome library for distribution of packages (already in progress). third is chunk the standard library and start providing the packages. seems simple but already the python community is waiting for a long time. -- Regards, Sriram.
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