Re: popularity-contest for Cygwin?

2005-09-30 Thread Shankar Unni
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: We already have such a tool. It's called "cygcheck". When people post their cygcheck output to the list, it also contains the list of packages they installed. But not what they are *using*, which seems to be the big thing in popularity-contest. Given that disks ar

Re: popularity-contest for Cygwin?

2005-09-30 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
ch a tool. It's called "cygcheck". When people post > their cygcheck output to the list, it also contains the list of packages > they installed. In the usual "5 seconds after hitting send" manner, I realized that I didn't mention that the solution below re

Re: popularity-contest for Cygwin?

2005-09-30 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
ghts about how to implement such a tool? Volunteers to > take it on? :) We already have such a tool. It's called "cygcheck". When people post their cygcheck output to the list, it also contains the list of packages they installed. So, to implement "popularity-contest"

popularity-contest for Cygwin?

2005-09-30 Thread Andrew Schulman
Debian has a package called popularity-contest: http://packages.debian.org/stable/misc/popularity-contest. The package installs a cron job that mails in statistics once a week about which Debian packages the user has installed, and which ones they're using. This allows the Debian team to track wh