From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: swedebugia@riseup.net Subject: Re: Stating the size of ecosystems in descriptions Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 07:42:01 -0800 Message-ID: References: <87sgxt6ijv.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <9b157f660f14ccf542cfa4fe793cc3db@riseup.net> <87imyo7ohq.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <87pnswvem1.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:44378) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gjnKT-0002JG-39 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2019 10:42:09 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gjnKQ-0004Aw-Dx for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2019 10:42:08 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87pnswvem1.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Gabriel Hondet Cc: guix-devel 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 Whichever number we provide will go out of date at some point.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