This cannot be:
I am trying to compile a few stats for the #Snakemake executor plugin for #SLURM on #HPC systems. Preparing for a lighting talk at the #SnakemakeHackathon2026
PyPi: 20,000 downloads last month
BioConda: > 60,000 total (aggregated over all versions)
Impressive as it might be, this is contradictory. PyPi would exceed BioConda by a huge margin.
Does anyone know how to get all-time statistics from either platform? #BioConda or #PyPi?
One month of PyPi making up a 3rd of all BioConda deployments. I would be a bad statistician, if I would simply believe that. It is, of course, possible.
As we recommend installing Snakemake via Conda (or use it via #easybuild or #spack) and installation via pip is rather difficult for all dependencies, I don't think the comparison will make much sense. (PyPi is about 8x compared to the plugin, BioConda > 1e6 in total). The real issue is that these numbers (total vs. monthly as a maximum) aren't really comparable in the first place. Hence, my rather generic question (or perhaps there is an API).
(But seriously: It is not worth investing too much time for this.)
Christian Meesters
JayMoore
DrYak