Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: >> >> People still use GNU Interactive Tools. Not just crazy, stupid people, >> and I bet not just Debian people. > > Why do you say that? > > Do you have anybody who actually does, or are you just claiming so?
Debian folks have a handy way to substantiate that claim or get that claim proven wrong, and I am somewhat surprised that nobody mentioned it so far. Debian popularity contest (http://popcon.debian.org/). Here is an excerpt I just made. <name> is the package name; <inst> is the number of people who installed this package; <vote> is the number of people who use this package regularly; <old> is the number of people who installed, but don't use this package regularly; <recent> is the number of people who upgraded this package recently; rank name inst vote old recent 1 base-files 7147 6777 158 212 2 base-passwd 7147 6724 163 260 3 debianutils 7147 6739 120 288 4 sed 7147 6763 155 229 ... 6591 git 114 24 83 7 ... 25555 git-core 2 1 0 1 (Not in sid) 29939 cogito-scm 1 0 1 0 (Not in sid) ... 46416 zope2.6 0 0 0 0 ------------------------------------------------- 46416 Total 6768849 2118048 2306009 595621 So yes, among 46.5K packages in the known universe, the other git ranks 6600th. Does that mean it is popular? I dunno. Obviously, not everybody who installs Debian participates in popcon. The sample size of the above statistics is 7147 installations of base-files. Among these 7147 sample installations, the other git was installed by 114 people, and 24 people regularly use it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
