Comment by LtWorf
1 year ago
Oh what a coincidence. I wrote pypular (https://codeberg.org/ltworf/pypular) to artificially increase download counts on PyPI (talked about it at a MiniDebConf).
I was claiming that there are important incentives to play this sort of games.
Seems OP proved me right!
In your opinion, which metrics could be better than # downloads to evaluate PyPI packages at scale?
# of downloads from unique IP would be better for sure.
Also if you have a local cache and just check the version, that won't count.