There may be several other metrics too. 1. Increasing usage of the language in both open source and commercial packages 2. Job listings 3. Activity in the discussion groups <add your own parameter here>
The download activity may not completely measure since some distributions may include several standard packages (I may be completely out of line here). I also wanted to throw in this into the mix: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/weblog/arch_d7_2008_01_05.shtml#e916 (might have been posted earlier) Dorai On Jan 10, 2008 12:53 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am not interested in fanning flames. Sorry to compare the wrong > statistics. > However it would be interesting to compare the downloads of these > so-called > Zope packages w.r.t the downloads of the other packages listed here. That > would be a right comparison, won't it ? > > Increased downloads of existing or old packages do represent an > increase in awareness or usage of that language, so this is an interesting > index to look at. > > According to me, the Python package index really does not give much > indication of any growth of Python, as does say the CPAN index gives for > Perl. > Comparing growth of package indexes can be a misleading index. > > TIOBE seems to use a simple search engine hit comparison. Though a > rough and crude index, this does tend to act as a smooth index of > the popularity of a language, canceling out the noises and variations > in other more specific indices, since a search engine query covers every > word > about the language on the web, even blogs about it. > > Downloads of packages is a much more worthy index than many others. > For example a 20% increase in downloads of Python language packages > from the Python website (or its mirrors) can be directly considered as a > 20% increase in its popularity or usage. > > --Anand > > On Jan 10, 2008 12:31 PM, Pradeep Kishore Gowda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On 1/10/08, Anand Balachandran Pillai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Well, that kind of goes against the theory that Python growth was > mostly due > > > to Zope related packages, doesn't it ? > > > > > > > O RLY!? > > > > AFAIK, I was the one who mentioned zope packages, so let me point out > > something. > > > > I said, the growth in the number of python packages on PyPI is partly > > due to lot of zope related packages, whereas this statistics talks > > about the *downloads*. > > > > They are two completely different statistics. > > > > Cheers, > > Pradeep > > > > _______________________________________________ > > BangPypers mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > > > > > > -- > -Anand > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > -- Dorai Thodla (http://www.thodla.com) US: 650-206-2688 India: 98408 89258
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