[Python-Dev] PEP 3144 review.

[Peter Moody]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Daniel Fetchinson
<fetchinson at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 188 (check that, 190) people have downloaded the 2.0 release in the
>>>>>> last week (numbers publicly available from the code.google.com). I
>>>>>> can't tell you how many (if any) have downloaded it via svn.
>>>>>
>>>>> Downloading and using are not the same thing.
>>>>
>>>> Correct, but there is a strong positive correlation between the two.
>>>> If you have a better method for determining what you would consider an
>>>> appropriate level of usage, I'm all ears.
>>>
>>> A good way of determining the level of usage would be pointing to open
>>> source projects that are popular in the python community and which
>>> incorporate your module.
>>
>> well, the 2.0 release is still new. codesearch.google.com shows some
>> projects using the 1.x release; hopefully some of those 200
>> downloaders will put up some publicly indexable python code at some
>> point.
>
> I think one first needs to wait until this happens, I meana large user
> base is formed, before a meaningful discussion can be done on whether
> to include it in the stdlib or not. The long and largely academic
> thread here I think illustrates this point. Without a large user base
> it's up to anybody's gut feelings what is 'right' and what 'feels
> wrong'.

I like the sound of this.

I'm going to continue to work on the PEP and the reference
implementation, but as Martin said earlier, there's no reason to
hurry.

any discussion on ipaddr and/or PEP 3144 can continue on
ipaddr-py-dev at googlegroups.com in the meantime (past spam
unfortunately means that you have to subscribe in order to post,
apologies, but all are welcome).  Hopefully, the continued work will
help iron any remaining confusion of the API.

Cheers,
/peter

> Cheers,
> Daniel
>
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