On Sunday 02 September 2007 03:29, Hugh Perkins wrote: > A really simple way to track the "quality" of a package is to display > the number of downloads. > > A posteriorae, this works great in other download sites. > > We can easily hypothesize about why a download count gives a decent > indication of some measure of quality: [...]
... and even more easily hypothesize why this is not always a good indication: High-qualitiy standard libraries which are packaged with GHC/Hugs/... will probably almost never be downloaded separately. Cheers, S. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
