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Re: Stating the size of ecosystems in descriptions
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swedebugia |
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Re: Stating the size of ecosystems in descriptions |
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Wed, 16 Jan 2019 07:42:01 -0800 |
On 2019-01-16 14:52, Gabriel Hondet wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> On Wed 16 Jan 2019 at 13:53 Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
>
>> Whichever number we provide will go out of date at some point.
>> It's extra maintenance, and if we only put a rough number (e.g. 100k+) then
>> it's
>> not really meaningful in my opinion.
>
> While I agree with this statement, I also think that Swedebugia's idea of
> comparing the number of Guix-ported packages of an ecosystem with the
> total number of packages in this ecosystem is interesting.
>
> Couldn't something like
>
> #+begin_src sh
> guix ecosystem pypi
> #+end_src
>
> which would retrieve the number of packages on pypi, compute the number
> of pypi packages defined for Guix and output some statistics be done?
+1
This is way better than including it in the definitions, however we
would probably have to parse the websites to get the numbers we need.
--
Cheers
Swedebugia
- Gauche description, Pierre Neidhardt, 2019/01/16
- Stating the size of ecosystems in descriptions (Was: Re: Gauche description), swedebugia, 2019/01/16
- Re: Stating the size of ecosystems in descriptions (Was: Re: Gauche description), Pierre Neidhardt, 2019/01/16
- Re: Stating the size of ecosystems in descriptions (Was: Re: Gauche description), Gabriel Hondet, 2019/01/16
- Re: Stating the size of ecosystems in descriptions,
swedebugia <=
- Re: Stating the size of ecosystems in descriptions (Was: Re: Gauche description), Ricardo Wurmus, 2019/01/16
- Re: Stating the size of ecosystems in descriptions (Was: Re: Gauche description), Pierre Neidhardt, 2019/01/16
- Re: Stating the size of ecosystems in descriptions (Was: Re: Gauche description), Ricardo Wurmus, 2019/01/16
- Re: Stating the size of ecosystems in descriptions, swedebugia, 2019/01/16
- Re: Stating the size of ecosystems in descriptions, Pierre Neidhardt, 2019/01/17
Re: Stating the size of ecosystems in descriptions (Was: Re: Gauche description), Ricardo Wurmus, 2019/01/16