Re: most popular Python projects

On Wednesday 10 March 2004 5:58 pm, Kevin Altis wrote:
> This is a long message, if you reply, you'll probably want to <snip> the
> parts that don't pertain to your reply...

> If you can think of projects that qualify that would be great. It would
> probably be useful to track open source and commercial projects where
> Python is used as a scripting or glue language, even if the primary app is
> written in another language (e.g. CVSGui projects, Blender, Paint Shop Pro
> 8, etc.).
>
> wxPython
> ========
> http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/index.php?report=months&group_id=10718
>
> Downloads are now consistently over 20K per month. There are 639 regular
> subscribers to wxPython-users, and around 275 digest subscribers. Robin
> Dunn is the only real developer of wxPython, though there are more on the
> wxWidgets side of things and many people like myself that don't do much on
> the core, but help out on the Python bits. Boa Constructor, the wxPython
> GUI builder gets a few thousand downloads per month.

PyGtk
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PyGtk is available through ftp and mirrors which makes it difficult to count 
downloads. Also, since PyGtk is included with the Redhat and Mandrake 
distributions, the count would not represent the size of the user base. The 
GUI toolkit is used extensively by Redhat for building the system 
administration tools, so counting Redhat installations might be a good 
starting number for the userbase. There are 503 regular subscribers and 75 
digest subscribers. 

Redhat
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I haven't been using the Redhat distribution lately, but IIRC they were using 
Python for installation and administrative scripts. Should we add the total 
number of Redhat installations to the total?