On Thursday, September 17, 2009, Daniel Fetchinson <fetchinson@googlemail.com> wrote:
188 (check that, 190) people have downloaded the 2.0 release in the last week (numbers publicly available from the http://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.
A good way of determining the level of usage would be pointing to open source projects that are popular in the python community and which incorporate your module.
well, the 2.0 release is still new. http://codesearch.google.com shows some projects using the 1.x release; hopefully some of those 200 downloaders will put up some publicly indexable python code at some point.
I think one first needs to wait until this happens, I meana large user base is formed, before a meaningful discussion can be done on whether to include it in the stdlib or not. The long and largely academic thread here I think illustrates this point. Without a large user base it's up to anybody's gut feelings what is 'right' and what 'feels wrong'.
+1000 -jake