05.08.08

PyPI usage statistics, the zc.buildout effect

Posted in plone, python, zope tagged , at 8:59 pm by Tarek Ziadé

It is interesting to look at the usage statistics at PyPI: http://pypi.python.org/webstats/usage_200805.html#DAYSTATS

Besides the front page, the most visited pages are in order (same thing in April):

  • zc.buildout
  • setuptools
  • zc.recipe.egg
  • plone.recipe.zope2instance
  • plone.recipe.distros
  • python-openid
  • elementtree
  • plone.recipe.zope2install

Then the packages in the top 60 are mainly zope eggs. This corresponds to the sequence done by a Plone or Zope being build in a buildout.

If you take a closer look at http://pypi.python.org/webstats/url_200804.html, the  next top hits  corresponds to zope.* then plone.* packages.

2 Comments »

  1. Florian Schulze said,

    May 9, 2008 at 10:59 am

    Since there is so much activity at midnight, I have the suspicion that there are a lot of buildbots running without an egg/download cache. And France seems to be *very* active, maybe some people there also don’t use any caches?

  2. Tarek Ziadé said,

    May 9, 2008 at 11:38 am

    @Florian : Yes we have realized that the cache was not taken on the buildbots we have (user bug), which has been corrected right after the sprint we had. Now collective.buildbot also distributes nightly builds during the whole day so there’s no high load at the same time.

    > maybe some people there also don’t use any caches

    I am not sure of what are you trying to say here :D

    Besides, the stats are quite similar (zope.*/plone.* at the top) if you browse back in the past months.

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