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

[Georg Brandl]

Guido van Rossum schrieb:
> I looked through the python.org web stats (as I usually do when
> preparing for a keynote) and discovered that
> /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? (The byte counts suggest they
> are.) What could cause this dramatic popularity of Python on Windows?
> Does some vendor have an auto-install hook that installs Python
> whenever someone opens up their new computer? Or have we just hit the
> jackpot?

Linux distributions usually just distribute the binaries which they built
themselves. Even those letting the user build from source mirror the
source tarballs on their servers.

Georg