[Python-Dev] Issues with Py3.1's new ipaddr (original) (raw)

Neil Schemenauer nas at arctrix.com
Wed Jun 3 19:13:19 CEST 2009

Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

It would be really nice if say the Cheeseshop had a voting feature. Use PEP 10 voting to get a rough estimate of a module's popularity (download counts alone might not tell you everything). Then at least you can get a rough idea of how generally popular a module is in the wider community. Also, a module should have to live on its own two feet for while on Cheeseshop before being considered for inclusion in the stdlib.

Better yet would be something like Debian's popularity-contest mechanism (it provides opt-in voting of packages based on what is installed on your machine). popularity-contest runs from a cron job. Maybe when Python is installed it could ask if you want to submit package statistics. If so, installing a package with distutils would submit the name and version number to a central server.

If we knew which batteries were most popular we could make sure they are included in the package. ;-)

Neil

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