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

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 7:27 AM, Victor Stinner
<victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

2.6 is the default in oldstable (Squeeze), so every Debian system that
hasn't upgraded from there is likely to be counted as a 2.6 and not a
2.7. (And Python 2 is a dependency of all sorts of things, so it's
likely to get installed.) Wheezy ships 2.6.8, and I seem to have both
that and 2.7.3 installed, so it's possible that even though 2.7 is the
default, a lot of 2.6 installations are happening.

Debian Testing (Jessie) ships both 3.3 and 3.4, with the 'python3'
package pulling in 3.3. That may change before Jessie becomes stable,
I don't know.

ChrisA