People use CPAN to solve a particular problem. They don't go looking to
download packages merely because they exist or are popular so I don't
see a parallel between CPAN and Cnet.
The idea of displaying download rates in my view is not to create a
popularity contest but to give the consumer an idea of how active is a
particular module.
Spiros Denaxas wrote:
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Eric Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
# from Rick Fisk
# on Tuesday 01 July 2008 00:09:
Number of downloads -
perhaps this could be compared to various release versions of the
module to keep it pertinent.
You can't count the downloads (we don't have any control over or
feedback from the mirrors the way sourceforge does.)
And again, I am not sure how that would help in any way since in
general (out of my own experience),
when you present people with a "top N downloaded" list, those items
get downloaded like crazy whereas other less popular do not since
nobody takes the time to fully explore the entire collection. In some
cases this might be good but I would hypothesize that in the majority
it would act as a retardant and slow down "progress".
Spiros
See debian's popcon for an alternative scheme where opt-in clients push
installed package+version back to a central point.
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