On Thursday, September 17, 2009, Daniel Fetchinson <fetchin...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>>>>> 188 (check that, 190) people have downloaded the 2.0 release in the >>>>>> last week (numbers publicly available from the http://code.google.com). I >>>>>> can't tell you how many (if any) have downloaded it via svn. >>>>> >>>>> Downloading and using are not the same thing. >>>> >>>> Correct, but there is a strong positive correlation between the two. >>>> If you have a better method for determining what you would consider an >>>> appropriate level of usage, I'm all ears. >>> >>> A good way of determining the level of usage would be pointing to open >>> source projects that are popular in the python community and which >>> incorporate your module. >> >> well, the 2.0 release is still new. http://codesearch.google.com shows some >> projects using the 1.x release; hopefully some of those 200 >> downloaders will put up some publicly indexable python code at some >> point. > > I think one first needs to wait until this happens, I meana large user > base is formed, before a meaningful discussion can be done on whether > to include it in the stdlib or not. The long and largely academic > thread here I think illustrates this point. Without a large user base > it's up to anybody's gut feelings what is 'right' and what 'feels > wrong'.
+1000 -jake _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
