[Distutils] [Python-Dev] Distutils & configparser rename

[Rasmus Andersson]

On 16 maj 2008, at 15.47, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

> On 2008-05-16 15:28, Rasmus Andersson wrote:
>> On 16 maj 2008, at 15.00, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>>> On 2008-05-15 22:33, A.M. Kuchling wrote:
>>>> <snip>
>>>
>>> So there already is a lot of porting effort needed to support
>>> a reasonable number of targets.
>>>
>>> I don't think it takes a lot of effort to keep distutils
>>> running with Python 2.3 and 2.4.
>> Speaking of which; is there any reliable statistics of Python  
>> versions and platforms? Would be really interesting!
>
> Reliable statistics are hard to obtain, since Python is distributed  
> along
> with many Unix distributions, as part of many products, and also in
> source form (where you basically lose any platform or Python version
> information).
>
> FWIW, these are the stats for our OSS Python package egenix-mx-base:
>
> Downloads egenix-mx-base 3.0 in 2008:
> Python 1.5.2: 0
> Python 2.0  : 0
> Python 2.1  : 31
> Python 2.2  : 54
> Python 2.3  : 483
> Python 2.4  : 3368
> Python 2.5  : 7504
> Source ZIP  : 4238
> Source TGZ  : 2918
>
> These are just downloads, so likely new installations (the 3.0
> version was released about one year ago). It's hard to tell what
> the installed user base looks like, esp with respect to the used
> Python versions.

Thank you. That's better than nothing alright!

>
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