I, too, think alphabetical order is seen as intentionally unbiased. It’s not like there are 3 projects starting with AAA anyway.
> (except for the fact that there should be two lists and not one) Why do you think there should be 2 lists? I would split it in native and cross toolchains. Additionally, since I can’t edit this myself now: msys2 has gcc 6.1.0 and also offers all the languages (like debian or ubuntu) Regards, Norbert. On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 1:31 PM Adrien Nader <adr...@notk.org> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 05, 2016, NightStrike wrote: > > On Sep 4, 2016 6:50 PM, "Adrien Nader" <adr...@notk.org> wrote: > > > > > > Additionaly, the list of projects using mingw-w64 is now sorted and > > > always displayed in full. > > > > This was always randomized on purpose, and for very good reason: we don't > > want to give preferential treatment to projects based on names starting > > with 'A'. We'd like to give equal exposure to all. > > I still have a few things to improve for this but the drawbacks to > randomizing are a bit too big for my taste. > > - users find the order weird > - users find the order changes weird > - the current implementation relies on javascript and makes the list > change suddenly > - some search engine bots *really* dislike that links come and go > > Meanwhile the links are not at the top of the page at all and are quite > clearly sorted alphabetically (except for the fact that there should be > two lists and not one) which makes me not worried about this. > > -- > Adrien Nader > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Mingw-w64-public mailing list > Mingw-w64-public@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list Mingw-w64-public@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
