[Python-checkins] MSI being downloaded 10x more than all other files?!

Tue Dec 12 00:17:28 CET 2006

On 12/11/06, Jim Jewett <jimjjewett at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/8/06, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> > /ftp/python/2.5/python-2.5.msi is by far the top download -- 271,971
> > hits, more than 5x the next one, /ftp/python/2.5/Python-2.5.tgz
> > (47,898 hits). Are these numbers real?
>
> Why wouldn't it be?

Just because in the past the ratio of downloads for a particular
version was always about 70% Windows vs. 30% source. Now it seems
closer to 90/10.

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--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)