From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE7D9BC6B for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:14:34 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8CACq6TkfUnw7Vlmdsb2JhbACCOY0GAgEBBwQGIgc X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.23,230,1194217200"; d="scan'208";a="6325041" Received: from ptb-relay02.plus.net ([212.159.14.213]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 29 Nov 2007 22:14:34 +0100 Received: from [80.229.56.224] (helo=beast.local) by ptb-relay02.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1IxqiO-00086K-S1 for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:14:33 +0000 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Package popularity on Debian and Ubuntu Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:23:12 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200711292023.13125.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Spam: no; 0.00; runtime:01 ocaml:01 bytecode:01 ocaml:01 runtime:01 ubuntu:98 frog:98 executables:01 debian:04 written:07 quite:08 interesting:12 ltd:87 packages:12 think:13 I did a little study of the package popularity contest results recently and discovered lots of interesting things. One thing that puzzles me though, is why there are ~13,000 installs of ocaml-base-nox (runtime system for ocaml bytecode executables) but only ~5,500 installs of ocaml-nox (everything needed to develop non-graphical ocaml applications). Presumably there are packages with ~7,500 installs that use only the runtime to run but I can't think what it is and would be interested to know because these are presumably quite notable pieces of software written in OCaml. Any ideas? -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e