On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 13:10, René Dudfield <ren...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Robert Kern <robert.k...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:47, René Dudfield <ren...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 500+ packages on pypi. Provide a counter point, otherwise the >>> evidence is against your position - overwhelmingly. >> >> Linux distributions, which are much, much more popular than any >> collection of packages on PyPI you might care to name. Isolated >> environments have their uses, but they are the exception, not the >> rule. > > wrong. pypi has way more python packages than any linux distribution. > 8500+ listed, compared to how many in debian? I said "more popular". As in "more users", not "more packages". But if you insist, Debian has ~30000 or so, depending on the architecture and release and how you count. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
