On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 17:41 +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 5:27 PM, holger krekel <hol...@merlinux.eu> wrote: > > Not having download counts maybe lets us think harder about > > better metrics. The number of projects using a package as a dep > > might be one. > > With the current downside being that it's hard for PyPI to figure out > that number, too :)
Yip. But something like Vinaj's red-dove approach or Marius' get_deps.py could provide a base. We might think about a docker instance which could allow to quickly spawn new light VMs so we can isolate setup.py runs. (Yes, it's only Linux but it'd be a start). > Agreed it would be a good number to publish once it's more readily > available, too. I think "dep" numbers are mostly interesting for libraries, not so much for applications like django or pyramid or tools like nose/pytest. Another more practical data point would be "does this package even install on win32/linux/osx py26/py27/py33" and even better, do its automated tests pass? If we could evolve to have this info published on pypi.python.org it would be quite useful i think. I am actually currently implementing a system which enables this (the "devpi" system) so i don't mean this all just as "nice to have" theory. I aim to present the status of this work at EuroPython. best, holger > > Cheers, > Nick. > > -- > Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia > _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
