Urgh. I guess that was already answered. Guess this'll teach me not to reply to a thread before waiting for ALL the messages to download over a low-bandwidth connection... (am on the road at the moment and catching up on stuff in spare cycles - sorry for the noise)
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 10:24 PM, PJ Eby <p...@telecommunity.com> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 30 October 2011 18:04, Ned Deily <n...@acm.org> wrote: >> > Has anyone analyzed the current packages on PyPI to see how many provide >> > binary distributions and in what format? >> >> A very quick and dirty check: >> >> dmg: 5 >> rpm: 12 >> msi: 23 >> dumb: 132 >> wininst: 364 >> egg: 2570 >> >> That's number of packages with binary distributions in that format. >> It's hard to be sure about egg distributions, as many of these could >> be pure-python (there's no way I know, from the PyPI metadata, to >> check this). >> > > FYI, the egg filename will contain a distutils platform identifier (e.g. > 'win32', 'macosx', 'linux', etc.) after the 'py2.x' tag if the egg is > platform-specific. Otherwise, it's pure Python. > >
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