[Python-Dev] MSI being downloaded 10x more than all other files?! (original) (raw)
Thomas Heller theller at ctypes.org
Fri Dec 8 16🔞03 CET 2006
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Guido van Rossum schrieb:
I looked through the python.org web stats (as I usually do when preparing for a keynote) and discovered that /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? (The byte counts suggest they are.)
You probably have to add the downloads for /ftp/python/2.5/Python-2.5.tar.bz2 (31,492 hits) to the last number.
Also interesting are the hits for 64-bit windows Pythons:
/ftp/python/2.5/python-2.5.amd64.msi (23192 hits) /ftp/python/2.5/python-2.5.ia64.msi (22523 hits)
What could cause this dramatic popularity of Python on Windows?
Have the ratios changed against past figures (too lazy to look them up now)?
Does some vendor have an auto-install hook that installs Python whenever someone opens up their new computer? Or have we just hit the jackpot?
Thomas
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