[Distutils] pypi suggestion

[Vinay Sajip]

----- Original Message -----

From: Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>


> "Most depended on", but that's currently a pain to extract. Making it
> easier to do that kind of analysis is actually one of my goals for
> metadata 2.0.




Here's my list of the top 25, based on the PyPI metadata that I maintain (not rigorously tested, but seems plausible):

6265:setuptools 
2371:django 
2178:requests 
1007:zope.interface 
1003:numpy 
873:pyyaml 
860:lxml 
784:simplejson 
758:zope.component 
734:six 
679:flask 
678:nose 
677:argparse 
633:sqlalchemy 
569:jinja2 
551:python-dateutil 
471:zope.schema 
456:sphinx 
433:pytz 
427:mock 
414:scipy 
405:distribute 
396:zc.buildout 
364:docopt 
363:pil 


The number against each dependency represents the number of distinct PyPI projects which list the dependency as a run-time requirement (:run: or :meta:).


It's possible that some projects declare things as run-time dependencies when they really mean build-time: I'm not sure that there are really over 400 projects which are Sphinx plugins / extensions.

Just throwing this out there as it may be of interest.

Regards,

Vinay Sajip