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[Python-Dev] PEP 3144 review.

Peter Moody peter at hda3.com
Tue Sep 15 20:36:44 CEST 2009 
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Jake McGuire <mcguire at google.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Peter Moody <peter at hda3.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Jake McGuire <mcguire at google.com> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> What's the opinion of the other interested party or parties? I don't
>> >> want a repeat of the events last time, where we had to pull it at the
>> >> last time because there hadn't been enough discussion.
>> >
>> > How many other people are using this library?  I think it's hard to give
>> > really useful feedback on an API without using it for some non-trivial
>> > task,
>> > but maybe other people don't have this problem.
>> > -jake
>>
>> 188 (check that, 190) people have downloaded the 2.0 release in the
>> last week (numbers publicly available from the 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.

> -jake
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