On 30 Jun 2014, at 20:22, Esteban A. Maringolo <emaringolo@gmail.com> wrote:

> http://modulecounts.com/ shows npm (node.js package manager) surpassed
> Java MavenCentral count of modules, and it is the fastest growing
> package manager.
>
> Though Pharo won't be up there anytime soon, the "1640 repositories"
> reported by SmalltalkHub's explore page are more than the PHP Pear
> count. And even when SH is not a module repository, it has a minimum
> volume worth mentioning there.

Yeah, having correct definitions is important to make comparisons.
Anyway, an StHub repository often contains multiple packages.
Quantity does not equal quality either.

But it would be a good idea to advertise some statistics concerning StHub.

> Is there a public API of SmalltalkHub from where to pull this historic
> information?
>
> Esteban A. Maringolo