download statistics

[Matthias Andree]

David Relson <relson at osagesoftware.com> writes:

> G'day,
>
> Below are the download statistics for bogofilter versions 0.8.0 and 0.7.6.
>
> 0.8.0 has had 62.69% of the downloads (741 vs 441, out of 1182 total).
> tar.gz files were most popular (66.94%/69.84% for the two versions),
> followed by i386.rpm and src.rpm (16.60%/16.10% and 8.23%/9.30%).  The
> debian and freebsd were much less popular.

As for FreeBSD, most downloads go through the ports system, and that
grabs the tarball and downloads it. Not sure what apt-get does.

I will not do FreeBSD packages or ports of the next bogofilter version,
but let people use the original port instead. Evidently, FreeBSD users
are also patient, because only 8 downloads of the .shar took place, and
some may have been spiders. Debian .dsc is equally unattractive.

We can also safely skip the .src.rpm for the next version, because it
can be automatically and perfectly built by "rpm -ts
bogofilter-0.8.0.tar.gz", so the source packages score around 75%, 21.3%
of all binary packages together.

> Clearly, most of those who download want the source files and do their
> own builds.
>
> bogofilter-0.8.0       2002-11-09
>                                                    rel     tot
>      name                          size   d/l      pct     pct
>      0.8.0.tar.gz                178000   496    66.94%  41.96%
>      0.8.0-1.i386.rpm            120281   123    16.60%   6.40%
>      0.8.0-1.src.rpm             180957    61     8.23%   5.16%
>      0.8.0.rel-1_i386.deb        102498    24     3.24%   1.25%
>      0.8.0-freebsd-i486-bin.tgz  102527    11     1.48%   0.93%
>      0.8.0.rel-1.diff.gz          54428    10     1.35%   0.52%
>      0.8.0.shar                    3273     8     1.08%   0.68%
>      0.8.0.rel-1.dsc                606     8     1.08%   0.42%
>                                           741    62.69%			


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Matthias Andree