On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Chris Jones <jon...@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk>wrote:
> Hi, > > On 28 May 2013, at 08:12 PM, Jean-François Caron <jfca...@phas.ubc.ca> > wrote: > > While download statistics might not be a good system, I do concur that > MacPorts very much would benefit from having a "discovery" mechanism by > which users find out about useful ports. Searching is nice, but it's not > discovery. Some kind of "top ports" list (however implemented) would be > useful, imho. > > > Personally, I fail to see how a 'top ports' list would tell me much. The > ports i find essential are likely very different from others, so i don't > see how using some sort of a list showing the most used ports would help me > in any way in choosing new ones to install. Some ports likely have a low > user base, but never less are critical to those that need them, such as > more esoteric ports from the science section. > > Maybe such a list might be of some limited interest to developers, so we > know which ports are most used, and perhaps more usefully those without > users, but beyond that i doubt such a list would tell us much or help > users. What would help users i think would be to have a much better > search/browsing interface, to allow them to browse available ports. > > Chris > I think the discovery mechanism argument is valid. The search mechanism only works if I know what I'm looking for. I don't know what I don't know but if 90% of MacPorts users install a specific port I would check it out even if I wasn't searching for it in particular. A better search interface would be an improvement too but I usually just install what I know I want. ...Stephen
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