[Python-Dev] Packaging and binary distributions (original) (raw)

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Sun Oct 30 23:52:44 CET 2011

On 30 October 2011 18:04, Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> wrote:

Has anyone analyzed the current packages on PyPI to see how many provide binary distributions and in what format?

A very quick and dirty check:

dmg: 5 rpm: 12 msi: 23 dumb: 132 wininst: 364 egg: 2570

That's number of packages with binary distributions in that format. It's hard to be sure about egg distributions, as many of these could be pure-python (there's no way I know, from the PyPI metadata, to check this).

This is 2913 packages with some form of binary distribution out of 16615 that have a single release on PyPI. I skipped 398 with multiple releases as I wasn't sure how to capture the data for those... I suspect they include some important cases, though (I know lxml is in there, for example).

So: 17% of packages have any binary release. Of those, 88% have eggs, 12% have wininst and the rest are under 5%. Put another way, 2% of all packages have wininst installers. And 15% have eggs. That's not a lot.

Paul.

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