On 11:17 pm, guido at python.org wrote: >On 12/11/06, Jim Jewett <jimjjewett at gmail.com> wrote: >> On 12/8/06, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> 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? > >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. Personally speaking, since switching to Ubuntu, I've been so happy with the speed of releases and the quality of packaged Python that I haven't downloaded a source release from python.org in over a year. If I need packages, they're already installed. If I need source from a release, I 'apt-get source' to conveniently install it from a (very fast) ubuntu mirror. When I need something outside the Ubuntu release structure, it's typically an SVN trunk checkout, not a release tarball. I don't know what Ubuntu's impact in the general user community has been, but it seems that the vast majority of python developers I interact with on a regular basis have switched. I wouldn't be surprised if this were a major part of the impact. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20061211/24057246/attachment.html
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