[SciPy-User] Central File Exchange for Scipy

[josef.pktd at gmail.com]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Pauli Virtanen <pav at iki.fi> wrote:
> Thu, 21 Apr 2011 03:07:29 -0500, Jason Grout wrote:
> [clip]

> As you can surmise from the discussion you linked to, there is resistance
> in adding new community-oriented features to PyPi itself, as some people
> feel that such features are out-of-scope for it. Doing it externally also
> makes sense from the usability and branding point of view --- a site
> called "Python in science" with filtered package selection can be more
> convincing and convenient to navigate than browsing "Topic :: Scientific/
> Engineering" on PyPi.
>
> The discussion on rating systems there is an useful read --- it's why I
> left out any star-based rating systems so far. Just adding "I use this"
> popularity measure probably works around most issues. (The PyPi download
> data is not a very reliable measure, as many of the bigger packages host
> their files externally.)

Sorry to add a comment here.

The thread on PyPi rating system was dominated by a few developers of
big or famous packages. Ratings for Django or numpy or scipy might not
be useful, but ratings (with required comments) are very useful for
the huge number of smaller packages and will be for "snippets".

matlab fileexchange is a good example for this.

Josef