Re: [Catalog-sig] download statistics / naming

2005-03-30 Thread Richard Jones
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:29 am, holger krekel wrote: > i am wondering if there are download statistics > for packages downloaded through PyPI? I guess we could use the apache logs for this - though we won't catch FTP accesses. > If not, then it would

Re: [Catalog-sig] download statistics / naming

2005-03-30 Thread Trent Mick
[Richard Jones wrote] > Shrubbery would be memorable, I think. It's long though. That is one thing that I don't so much like about "eggcrate". It is long and a left-hand finger-twister on the keyboard. Another idea: snakeden (or just "den"?) I love the little animated GIF on this page with the s

Re: [Catalog-sig] Table of Python Packages, updated

2005-03-30 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Mar 30, 2005, at 5:18 PM, Ian Bicking wrote: Ed Summers wrote: Well, I'm late in catching up with what python eggs actually are. Now that I know what they are, I like the idea of "eggcrate" a lot. I agree keeping it in the python.org domain could serve as a subliminal stamp of approval.

[Catalog-sig] download statistics / naming

2005-03-30 Thread holger krekel
hi folks, i am wondering if there are download statistics for packages downloaded through PyPI? If not, then it would be a great feature IMHO. cheers, holger P.S.: On the naming front, i actually like the suggestion of PYCAN a lot. It has a number of useful connotations

Re: [Catalog-sig] Table of Python Packages, updated

2005-03-30 Thread Ian Bicking
Ed Summers wrote: Well, I'm late in catching up with what python eggs actually are. Now that I know what they are, I like the idea of "eggcrate" a lot. I agree keeping it in the python.org domain could serve as a subliminal stamp of approval. eggcrate.python.org, or even better (I

Re: [Catalog-sig] Table of Python Packages, updated

2005-03-30 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
How about: Omnivorous as the name and: omni.python.org as the domain. I know, I know, no punny connection, but it would seem to me to better link to the idea of collecting (eating) everything that's out there, extending Python to be able to consume whatever protocol, data format, platf

Re: [Catalog-sig] Table of Python Packages, updated

2005-03-30 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Mar 30, 2005, at 4:12 PM, Ed Summers wrote: Well, I'm late in catching up with what python eggs actually are. Now that I know what they are, I like the idea of "eggcrate" a lot. I agree keeping it in the python.org domain could serve as a subliminal stamp of approval. eggcrate.python.org, or

Re: [Catalog-sig] Table of Python Packages, updated

2005-03-30 Thread Ed Summers
Well, I'm late in catching up with what python eggs actually are. Now that I know what they are, I like the idea of "eggcrate" a lot. I agree keeping it in the python.org domain could serve as a subliminal stamp of approval. eggcrate.python.org, or even better (I think): eggs

[Catalog-sig] Re: [chiPy] Ian and David

2005-03-30 Thread Brant Harris
Very Interesting. It strikes me that a ranking system within PyPi would help alleviate this problem of "too many choices" of frameworks. With a ranking system, clear winners would emerge that would attract support and concentrate resources. On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 02:48:23 -0600, Daniel Delapava <[