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[Python-Dev] PEP 3144 review.

Jake McGuire mcguire at google.com
Thu Sep 17 20:58:29 CEST 2009 
On Thursday, September 17, 2009, Daniel Fetchinson
<fetchinson at 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
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