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[Python-Dev] PEP 3144 review.

Daniel Fetchinson fetchinson at googlemail.com
Thu Sep 17 20:10:51 CEST 2009 
>>>>> 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.
>>
>> 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. 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'.

Cheers,
Daniel


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