[Python-Dev] Download Counts (was: Language Summit notes)

[Victor Stinner]

2014-05-28 22:05 GMT+02:00 Eli Bendersky <eliben at gmail.com>:
> Most Linux installs go through package managers which don't count here, no?

For Debian, there is the "popcorn" project which provides some statistics:

http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=python2.6
http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=python2.7
http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=python3.2
http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=python3.3
http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=python3.4

It looks like python2.6 is installed more often than python2.7 ! (if
you look at the "Inst" column, not in the "Recent" column.)

Python 3.4 recently became the default python3 package on Debian
Unstable ("sid"). Debian Stable (Wheezy) still uses Python 3.2. I
guess that Debian Testing uses Python 3.3.

Victor