On May 17, 2014, at 10:21 AM, Donald Stufft <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On May 16, 2014, at 3:27 PM, Carl Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> Basically, I think some acknowledgment of this problem of packages >>>> without active maintainers (and ideally a proposed solution to it) >>>> should be in PEP 470. >>> >>> Right now the PEP's (and my) position is that it breaks because I believe >>> that >>> the impact of this change is being overblown. I'm attempting to gather more >>> data now. >> >> You could be right. More data would certainly be good. >> >> Thanks for all your work on all this stuff! >> >> Carl > > So I’ve went ahead and processed the data. I did this by taking the list of > projects which *only* host externally, either safely or unsafely. This ended > up being a little over 1700 projects. After that I took the log file from > PyPI for 2014-05-14 and looked for any hits on their simple page by pip or > setuptools. I only looked for these two in order to exclude mirroring clients > and the like. > > The end result is that 339 projects have any hits at all, ~1400 projects did > not receive any hits to their simple page in that time at all. A handful of > projects received significant hits, with PIL being an obvious outlier that > received ~72k. > > Here are the list of projects that received any hits to their simple page > which are hosted completely off of PyPI: > > https://gist.github.com/dstufft/5ebfb0d7e53194e5f89e > > I feel that this validates my assumption that the vast bulk of these external > projects are vestigial. > > ----------------- > Donald Stufft > PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA > > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig Hmm, scratch this. these numbers may be wrong. I’m going through and spot checking them and something seems off. Will re-evaluate. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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