> On Dec 28, 2016, at 7:40 PM, Yehuda Katz <yeh...@ymkatz.net> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 12:35 AM, William A Rowe Jr <wr...@rowe-clan.net> > wrote: > Our adoption is *broadly* based on the OS distributions > from vendors, not from people picking up our sources. > Yes - some integrate directly from source, and others > use a non-OS distribution. > > I think a significant number of users of nginx add the official nginx yum/apt > sources and keep up to date that way > (http://nginx.org/en/linux_packages.html#mainline). > This is particularly true because the vendor-supplied version are so old. You > can see this in the w3techs data: nginx 1.10.2 came out in October and > already makes up 75% of all nginx 1.10 users. nginx 1.11.8 usage has similar > trends. > > A possible solution to this would be to start publishing binaries in a > package-manager-accessible format. > I am confident it would see a much higher rate of adoption. >
Good point. +1
