Kurt B. Kaiser wrote:
Guido van Rossum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Just because in the past the ratio of downloads for a particular
version was always about 70% Windows vs. 30% source. Now it seems
closer to 90/10.
Going mainstream :-))
The Rails buzz seems to be jumping to Python
On 12/8/06, Guido van Rossum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
/ftp/python/2.5/python-2.5.msi is by far the top download -- 271,971
hits, more than 5x the next one, /ftp/python/2.5/Python-2.5.tgz
(47,898 hits). Are these numbers real?
Why wouldn't it be?
Most computers are running windows.
Most
On 12/11/06, Jim Jewett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 12/8/06, Guido van Rossum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
/ftp/python/2.5/python-2.5.msi is by far the top download -- 271,971
hits, more than 5x the next one, /ftp/python/2.5/Python-2.5.tgz
(47,898 hits). Are these numbers real?
Why wouldn't
On 11:17 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 12/11/06, Jim Jewett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 12/8/06, Guido van Rossum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
/ftp/python/2.5/python-2.5.msi is by far the top download -- 271,971
hits, more than 5x the next one, /ftp/python/2.5/Python-2.5.tgz
(47,898 hits).
Guido van Rossum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Just because in the past the ratio of downloads for a particular
version was always about 70% Windows vs. 30% source. Now it seems
closer to 90/10.
Going mainstream :-))
The Rails buzz seems to be jumping to Python lately.
--
KBK
Guido van Rossum schrieb:
I looked through the python.org web stats (as I usually do when
preparing for a keynote) and discovered that
/ftp/python/2.5/python-2.5.msi is by far the top download -- 271,971
hits, more than 5x the next one, /ftp/python/2.5/Python-2.5.tgz
(47,898 hits). Are these
I think this is Python's popularity. One factor is ready availability:
normal users don't build Python from source. So Windows users download
it from python.org, everybody else gets the binaries from the OS vendor.
Another factor is that the ActiveState ActivePython distribution for
Windows
