On 2010-02-27 14:37-0000 Andrew Ross wrote: > > I've managed to find a volunteer willing to sponsor uploads of the > plplot packages to Debian. > > Packages of 5.9.5 are now back in unstable which is good news. This > fixes most of the outstanding bugs. Once this has stabilised I > will go ahead and package up the ocaml bindings and the qt drivers > as 2 new packages.
This is good news, indeed. Your Debian packaging efforts and Orion's Fedora packaging efforts are important. According to the popularity contest statistics at http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=plplot something like 0.15 per cent of Debian users regularly use libplplot9. If those percentages hold for the combined RedHat, Debian, and Ubuntu users, and there are 10 million such users (which is probably conservative), then we are talking about 15 thousand who regularly use binary versions of PLplot thanks to the packaging efforts you and Orion make. These are obviously extremely rough estimates, but still I think it is clear that packaged binary use of PLplot is much higher than usage from those who build it for themselves (~3000 have downloaded plplot-5.9.5 since its release). Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
