Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] MSI being downloaded 10x more than all other files?!
On 12/8/06, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /ftp/python/2.5/python-2.5.msi is by far the top download -- 271,971 > hits, more than 5x the next one, /ftp/python/2.5/Python-2.5.tgz > (47,898 hits). Are these numbers real? Why wouldn't it be? Most computers are running windows. Most people running some other operating system can get python from that someplace else -- and have to if they don't want to compile it themselves. (But recompiling isn't usually a barrier, as compilers usually come with the system.) Most people running windows cannot compile python. I'm not sure there even *is* a free way to do it; mingw may well compile additional extensions, but it can't compile the main python tree. There have been recipes for using free MSVC versions, but I'm not sure whether any work today. -jJ ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] MSI being downloaded 10x more than all other files?!
On 12/11/06, Jim Jewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/8/06, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > /ftp/python/2.5/python-2.5.msi is by far the top download -- 271,971 > > hits, more than 5x the next one, /ftp/python/2.5/Python-2.5.tgz > > (47,898 hits). Are these numbers real? > > Why wouldn't it be? Just because in the past the ratio of downloads for a particular version was always about 70% Windows vs. 30% source. Now it seems closer to 90/10. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] MSI being downloaded 10x more than all other files?!
On 11:17 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On 12/11/06, Jim Jewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 12/8/06, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > /ftp/python/2.5/python-2.5.msi is by far the top download -- 271,971 >> > hits, more than 5x the next one, /ftp/python/2.5/Python-2.5.tgz >> > (47,898 hits). Are these numbers real? >> >> Why wouldn't it be? > >Just because in the past the ratio of downloads for a particular >version was always about 70% Windows vs. 30% source. Now it seems >closer to 90/10. Personally speaking, since switching to Ubuntu, I've been so happy with the speed of releases and the quality of packaged Python that I haven't downloaded a source release from python.org in over a year. If I need packages, they're already installed. If I need source from a release, I 'apt-get source' to conveniently install it from a (very fast) ubuntu mirror. When I need something outside the Ubuntu release structure, it's typically an SVN trunk checkout, not a release tarball. I don't know what Ubuntu's impact in the general user community has been, but it seems that the vast majority of python developers I interact with on a regular basis have switched. I wouldn't be surprised if this were a major part of the impact. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] MSI being downloaded 10x more than all other files?!
"Guido van Rossum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just because in the past the ratio of downloads for a particular > version was always about 70% Windows vs. 30% source. Now it seems > closer to 90/10. Going mainstream :-)) The Rails buzz seems to be jumping to Python lately. -- KBK ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
