On 12/4/06, Benjamin Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to provide build pass/fail statistics auto-uploaded when > building, but also providing hooks to report usage would be nice too, > although more annoyingly invasive (and difficult to implement without > wrapping all binaries...)
Rather than wrapping the binaries, we could settle for determining how recently a given binary has been used (this is what the Debian popcon package does). In addition to submitting binary package statistics to their server, the popcon package helps the user prune old packages by determining which packages are "unused" (based on stat() atime) and sorting the unused package list by largest first. This usage check is probably best scheduled as a background job, and statistics could be pushed to a server at selfupdate time. Since Fink has a somewhat different set of usage statistics to collect, it might be better just to borrow some ideas from popcon, and write the rest into the fink perl code. That way, there is no need to keep the popcon list of distributions in sync with the main fink codebase, etc. I would be willing to take a closer look at this, if someone else who is more familiar with the internals of fink could point me towards the right places to hook into the selfupdate routine and so forth. -- - Charles Lepple ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
