Re: Stating the size of ecosystems in descriptions

[swedebugia@riseup.net]

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 Whichever number we provide will go out of date at some point.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