Archive: 2019
piwheels stats 2019Q3
In the period of July — September 2019, 2,414,682 packages were downloaded from piwheels, bringing the total to 11,799,590. This has saved 29 years in the period, and 123 years in total! Each month had around 800,000 downloads: which saved around between 7 and 11 years per month: 18 July had...
piwheels stats 2019Q2
In the period of April — June 2019, 1,681,550 packages were downloaded from piwheels, bringing the total to 9,384,908. This has saved 24 years 8 months in the period, and 94 years 1 month in total! Each month had over 500,000 downloads : which saved around 8 years: 9 April had the highest...
New opencv builds (including opencv 4.x)
I think this post will please a lot of people. We've just imported all the missing opencv files, including the latest 4.x releases up to v4.1.1.26 for all opencv/contrib/headless variations: opencv-python opencv-python-headless opencv-contrib-python opencv-contrib-python-headless When you pip...
Raspbian Buster builds complete
An update on our last post, we have now completed a run of builds for Python 3.7 wheels for Raspbian Buster. Now, when you pip install something on Raspbian Buster, you'll generally get a wheel for it, to the same extent you do for Jessie and Stretch. We now host 40k Python 3.4 wheels (Jessie), 46k...
Raspbian Buster builds in progress
A while ago we had to stop building packages when we discovered an issue with our use of the cbor2 library. When packages were built by a builder Pi, we'd serialise the build info and send it in a message to the piwheels master, which would then send a message to the database. After suffering what...
Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspbian Buster
Big news today: the Raspberry Pi 4 is out — and slightly ahead of the official release of Debian Buster, Raspbian Buster is released too. So what does this mean for piwheels? Raspberry Pi 4 The Raspberry Pi 4 is a huge step forward in performance. It's a much faster computer. However, it's not a...
piwheels stats 2019Q1
piwheels had a great start to 2019, with our biggest month in terms of downloads in January, and biggest month in terms of time saved in February! Headline stats for the quarter: Downloads: 2,176,652 Build time saved: 25 years 7 months 23 days This brings our totals so far to: Downloads:...
piwheels stats for 2018
piwheels was launched in mid-2017, and we started counting downloads in November of that year, so now we have over a year's worth of data on which packages have been downloaded, and how much time has been saved. If you're not familiar, piwheels.org is a Python package repository providing natively...