Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] MSI being downloaded 10x more than all other files?!

2006-12-11 Thread Jim Jewett
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 p

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] MSI being downloaded 10x more than all other files?!

2006-12-11 Thread Guido van Rossum
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? > > Wh

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] MSI being downloaded 10x more than all other files?!

2006-12-11 Thread glyph
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 >> > (4

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] MSI being downloaded 10x more than all other files?!

2006-12-11 Thread Kurt B. Kaiser
"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 ___