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From: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
To: Jean-Christophe =?iso-8859-1?q?Filli=E2tre?= <Jean-Christophe.Filliatre@lri.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Package popularity on Debian and Ubuntu
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:01:04 +0000
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X-Spam: no; 0.00; filliatre:01 runtime:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 hevea:01 ledit:01 hevea:01 ledit:01 grepping:01 ubuntu:98 softwares:98 ubuntu:98 frog:98 wrote:01 caml-list:01 

On Thursday 29 November 2007 21:44, Jean-Christophe Filli=E2tre wrote:
> Jon Harrop a =E9crit :
> > 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?
>
> Here are at least three Debian softwares written in ocaml and relying on
> package ocaml-base-nox only: hevea, bibtex2html, hlins

Yes indeed! And ledit.

I get:

Package     Debian Ubuntu Total
hevea          526  1,483 2,009
ledit          822    800 1,622
bibtex2html    481    441   922
hlins           83     35   118

> But I have no idea how many installs they represent. I guess you're
> referring to figures at http://popcon.debian.org/ (which I did not know
> at all) but I can't find the figures you're giving.

I'm just grepping the by_inst files and looking at the number of installs f=
or=20
each package. Also for Ubuntu at:

  http://popcon.ubuntu.com

What's the best way for me to automate this? I'd like to find all packages=
=20
that depend upon ocaml-base-nox and how many installs they have on Debian a=
nd=20
Ubuntu. Good for OCaml evangelism. :-)

=2D-=20
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
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