Thanks! That's an astounding number, but I think it's probably an overestimate. For example, I suspect that many of those people are through dependencies rather than direct usage. I know that some BioPerl modules depend on PDL.
But, at least we know that thousands of people use PDL, whether directly or indirectly. That's pretty cool! David On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Jan Hoogenraad <[email protected]>wrote: > FYI: Of the 2016510 users that report their package usage from Ubuntu, > 7332 use PDL. This is higher than other numbers I have seen in this mailing > list. > > http://popcon.ubuntu.com/ > > #The fields below are the sum for all the packages maintained by that > #developer: > # > #<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; > #<no-files> is the number of people whose entry didn't contain enough > # information (atime and ctime were 0). > #rank name inst vote old recent no-files > > > Package: pdl 73 7332 21 1 > > Package: base-files 182932 2016510 6389 318 > > > Jan Hoogenraad wrote: > >> As a simple user (not PDL developer), running about 4 processors >> full-time with PDL code (yes: I USE PDL), I have not used CPAN at all, >> not will do so in the near future. >> I have tried PDL from CPAN, but after it started downloading hundreds of >> packages (including half of perl, which it deemed outdated), it still >> did not run with my pre-compiled perl. So I gave up on that. >> I never use PDL plotting. >> >> For stability & configuration management, I use Ubuntu (=debian) >> packages. (current version: PDL v2.4.5 (supports bad values)) >> >> I love modularized perl, and only use pre-compiled packages. >> Using modularized PDL, I can use debian dependency management so select >> either versions with plotting (which then should automatically load PDL >> core), or the number-crunching I need. >> >> Joel Berger wrote: >> >>> I would highly support a modularized PDL, with a lean core and a >>> Task::PDL which pull everything we are used to from `cpanm PDL`. If >>> even for the testing purposes. >>> >>> Joel >>> >>> >>> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Perldl mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.jach.hawaii.**edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl<http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl> >> > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Perldl mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.jach.hawaii.**edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl<http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl> > -- Sent via my carrier pigeon.
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