Re: Tracking the number of downloads

2010-10-24 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
On Oct 24, 2010, at 2:43 AM, Marko Käning wrote: track-stats { option-1 option-2 option-3 } Yep, that sounds interesting, Sott, but more simple proxy log filtering would count everything and could therefore probably more precise and also require no end-user interacti

Re: Tracking the number of downloads

2010-10-24 Thread Scott Haneda
On Oct 24, 2010, at 5:27 AM, Marko Käning wrote: > Yes, I do see the privacy concern. The tracking of downloads would have to be > disconnected from the downloading user of course. > > But I see that with all these questions it's not high priority for you to > work on it. Even seeing the web s

Re: Tracking the number of downloads

2010-10-24 Thread Marko Käning
Yes, I do see the privacy concern. The tracking of downloads would have to be disconnected from the downloading user of course. But I see that with all these questions it's not high priority for you to work on it. ___ macports-dev mailing list macports

Re: Tracking the number of downloads

2010-10-24 Thread Scott Haneda
On Oct 24, 2010, at 2:43 AM, Marko Käning wrote: >> track-stats { >> option-1 >> option-2 >> option-3 >> } > Yep, that sounds interesting, Sott, but more simple proxy log filtering would > count everything and could therefore probably more precise and also require > no end-user in

Re: Tracking the number of downloads

2010-10-24 Thread Marko Käning
> track-stats { > option-1 > option-2 > option-3 > } Yep, that sounds interesting, Sott, but more simple proxy log filtering would count everything and could therefore probably more precise and also require no end-user interaction. Here you force the installing user to decided w

Re: Tracking the number of downloads

2010-10-24 Thread Scott Haneda
On Oct 23, 2010, at 1:33 AM, Takeshi Enomoto wrote: > The developer of gcc upc is curious the number of > downloads through MacPorts. > > It is not possible to count the installed ports by users > but as a proxy we could count the number of downloads of > source tar balls through the MacPorts mi

Re: Tracking the number of downloads

2010-10-23 Thread Marko Käning
> but as a proxy we could count the number of downloads of > source tar balls through the MacPorts mirror sites. I raised the question some time ago. Yes, I think it would probably very helpful to have these numbers, since it port popularity would be an important criterion when it comes to whic

Tracking the number of downloads

2010-10-23 Thread Takeshi Enomoto
The developer of gcc upc is curious the number of downloads through MacPorts. It is not possible to count the installed ports by users but as a proxy we could count the number of downloads of source tar balls through the MacPorts mirror sites. Is there a way for a port maintainer to know a figure