[Python-Dev] PEP 3144 review. (original) (raw)

Peter Moody peter at hda3.com
Tue Sep 15 20:36:44 CEST 2009

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Jake McGuire <mcguire at google.com> wrote:

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Peter Moody <peter at hda3.com> wrote:

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Jake McGuire <mcguire at google.com> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> > wrote: >> >> What's the opinion of the other interested party or parties? I don't >> want a repeat of the events last time, where we had to pull it at the >> last time because there hadn't been enough discussion. > > How many other people are using this library?  I think it's hard to give > really useful feedback on an API without using it for some non-trivial > task, > but maybe other people don't have this problem. > -jake 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.

-jake

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