At 11:06 PM +0100 3/18/14, Rainer Müller wrote:
On 2014-03-18 22:09, James Berry wrote:
> * More integrated web app with better access to ports, etc.
Which could also be integrated with the upcoming statistics gathering in
the next MacPorts release.
As I understand it, the statistics process arose
in GSOC 11, right? Is it pretty much as
described at:
https://trac.macports.org/wiki/MacPortsStatisticsGSoC2011
There is a (short) thread about the proposal here:
https://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2011-March/014384.html
which suggests it is inspired by Debian's Popcon
tool ("Popularity Contest"). The Popcon home
page and a page for libpng (chosen at random) are
at:
http://popcon.debian.org/
http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=libpng
Is the above accurate? I understand that Popcon
tracks the last access time (atime) for files in
a port and that our implementation does not.
From what I can see, our tool will not gather
whether a port was Requested or not. I think
that's a key data point. Some libs will get
installed very frequently as dependencies but
will seldom be requested.
Also, this is implemented as a weekly launchd
job. What happens if there is a problem
somewhere between the users machine and the
server receiving the data? Does the user job
abort gracefully? Try again? What is the user
wants to get rid of MacPorts and deletes
/opt/local/*. My experience is that launchd will
_never_ stop trying to run the missing job and
will spam the Console log with complaints about
it.
Do we have a sample statistics page for a port/all ports?
Craig
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