Am 11.08.2010 21:46, schrieb Ger Remmers: > On Wednesday 11 August 2010 07:07:21 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: >> Bernd Kreuss wrote: >>> On 10.08.2010 22:29, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: >>>> I don't know how anybody else feels, but I'd have no objection to a >>>> "popularity contest" extension which submitted anonymous platform >>>> details >>> >>> This would be cool! Maybe even FPC itself could create these statistics. >>> Something like this with really big numbers (after aggregating all >> >>> users) would look quite impressive: >> I have to say that I don't know how to write this sort of thing, either >> from the point of view of Lazarus or from the point of view of making it >> acceptable to users rather than looking like intrusive spyware. >> >> But I think the really useful thing, far more than just aggregating >> number of lines of code, would be picking up when somebody tried to >> compile either Lazarus itself or an app for a specific CPU/OS/widget >> set, including cases where that combination failed. >> >> How many people get Lazarus (on any platform) and try it out without >> joining the mailing list or commenting on a project forum? Of these, how >> many drop it because they have a problem compiling a project? How can we >> find out where the problem areas are, without getting feedback from >> these anonymous users? >> >> If we had- for example- aggregated statistics for "This copy of Lazarus" >> on one of the about tabs, how could we also roll in e.g. somebody >> attempting to build Lazarus from the command line (make clean bigide) >> who found it didn't work because he'd got the wrong version of the KDE >> libraries (been there done that)? > > To be brutally honest, I don't like any form of "ET, phone home" things in a > program. > > Why not? > Because it is nobodies business [how / if / what for] I or anybody else uses > the compiler.
I agree with this. But we've to life with its downsides: We've no clue in what directions the compiler should be pushed. The mailing or bug lists are a bad indication for this: just imagine 90% of the users use a certain compiler package but never have problem with it, so no bug reports and no mailing list posts. So we decide, ok, let's dump this particular release type/package, it seems nobody is interested in it. It boils down to: you usually hear only form unsatisfied customers and seldomly from the satisfied. > It has been put out there as open source, no strings attached. Actually free software ;) -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
