On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 6:58 AM, Dirk Hohndel <d...@hohndel.org> wrote:
> > On Dec 28, 2017, at 8:50 PM, Miika Turkia <miika.tur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 5:15 PM, Dirk Hohndel <d...@hohndel.org> wrote: > >> >> I could be wrong (that's one of my defining strength - I am wrong a lot). >> But here's my analysis: >> >> About 2/3 of our users are supported with one single binary, the Windows >> installer. >> Another 20% of our users are supported by one single binary, the Mac DMG >> (we had times had a second DMG for older versions, but given that they >> tended to get < 100 users, I have not spend much effort on them). >> The remaining roughly 15% of our users today require us to build about 30 >> different binary packages which take up a significant amount of my time >> whenever we introduce a new dependency, need a feature from a newer version >> of a library, or some other way break things. At this point I have managed >> to bring down the number of build configuration systems to 3 to create the >> vast majority of those binary packages: the Ubuntu/Launchpad system, the >> openSUSE/Fedora/OBS system, plus AppImage. Additionally, community members >> are maintaining always current and very solid binary packages for Arch and >> Gentoo (I believe). Considering this maybe you can understand my reluctance >> better. >> > > Here is a quick run-down from Launchpad for the latest release. > > 4.7.5-1~zesty (56) - 17.04 > zesty (56) > amd64 (53) > i386 (3) > 4.7.5-1~xenial (505) - 16.04 LTS > xenial (505) > amd64 (472) > i386 (33) > 4.7.5-1~artful (123) - 17.10 > artful (123) > amd64 (120) > i386 (3) > > > Those are number of people who have installed it, not number of people who > use it, correct? > Yep, this is the number of people who have installed Subsurface 4.7.5 from Launchpad. > BTW Out of curiosity, how many users you think we have in total? > > > Around 20k users who connected to the update server at least once in the > last 6 months. This number overstates the number of users as for example I > am counting for about 20 entries here; every single computer / VM on which > I have installed Subsurface in the last 6 months shows up... but > realistically, most NORMAL people have Subsurface on one or two devices, so > I'm guessing this means we have more than 15k users. > On the other hand, I do not connect to the update server at all :D as it suffices to have our Launchpad repo configured and getting updates automatically (if not running master). miika
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