From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id MAA06904; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 12:26:19 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA06925 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 12:26:17 +0100 (MET) Received: from mel-rto6.wanadoo.fr (smtp-out-6.wanadoo.fr [193.252.19.25]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h1RBQGH01219 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 12:26:16 +0100 (MET) Received: from mel-rta8.wanadoo.fr (193.252.19.79) by mel-rto6.wanadoo.fr (6.7.015) id 3E0C343F027691C1; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 12:26:10 +0100 Received: from iliana (81.48.94.7) by mel-rta8.wanadoo.fr (6.7.015) id 3E26DA7001775166; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 12:26:10 +0100 Received: from luther by iliana with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18oMAy-0001OS-00; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 12:26:08 +0100 Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 12:26:08 +0100 To: Oliver Bandel Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml User Base Message-ID: <20030227112608.GA5220@iliana> References: <20030227103519.GA685@first.in-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030227103519.GA685@first.in-berlin.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i From: Sven Luther Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 11:35:19AM +0100, Oliver Bandel wrote: > Hello, > > is there an estimation about the number of Ocaml-users? It is a difficult task. What about doing a survey, something web based where you can tell about your ocaml usage, and which would generate a daily statistic page or something such based on that data. We had something such for calculating usage of linux/m68k back in those days. The ocaml documentation would strongly suggest that people register there or something such. > How many downloads of Ocaml-Distributions wil be done? That would miss all the people getting ocaml from other sources, like distributions, CD included in ocaml books, etc. As for debian, we have no way to know how many people download our packages, what with our extensive mirror network. That said, there is the popularity-contest package, which gathers info on your system's installed debian packages and send them weekly in addition of helping detecting unused packages. Result are shown in : http://people.debian.org/~apenwarr//popcon/ but not everyone takes part of this survey, and it may cause security concerns for some or something such. > And is it possible to estimate the number of programmers, > who are using Ocaml from this number of downloads? I think not, what about the publication numbers of the ocaml books ? Friendly, Sven Luther ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners