On 12.03.2012, at 20:58, Carnë Draug wrote: > On 12 March 2012 16:17, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jord...@octave.org> wrote: >> So which packages are a priority? > > I thought the list of most installed packages you sent before was the > basis to decide this. > > This can be compared with the list given in the sourceforge site but > it's a bit hard to analyze since packages are released at different > times. If someone decides to analyze it properly, consider that for a > long time sourceforge decided to chose what was the best file to > download based on the OS it thought the user was which means the > octave binaries rather than the packages. I have changed this a few > months ago to be the last package uploaded. This caused an increase on > the number of packages being downloaded. This number decreases after a > different package being uploaded which suggests that many people just > click on whatever shows up on the "download latest release" at the > homepage when looking for the actual octave binaries and doesn't > actually mean they want that package. Also, not sure if downloading > with the -forge flag on pkg shows up on the sourceforge statistics. > > Still, the packages with most downloads seem to be control, signal, > miscellaneous and image. > > Carnë
To sum up, I updated the list of priority packages: * control * image * io * java (I've never used it so far, therefore I can't tell) * odepkg (I use this quite often for solving ODEs) * optim (and its dependencies miscellaneous and struct) * signal * statistics Lukas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
