Le lun 20/09/2004 � 11:53, Mike Hearn a �crit : > > A 'lot' is a bit of an exageration. It seems our binary packages are > > quite popular, please check the download stats (apprently they have been > > fixed as of late on SF :)). So getting our packagers to include them > > would be a great step forward. Also, providing a separate package for > > the folks that insist to build from source (under Support Files), would > > solve the problem for most of the other users. > > We get ~6000 downloads a day right now which is OK but not that great, > given the size of the project.
~30000 for the last 7 days. Yes, I'm surprised to see that, for example, the French translations of Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird score higher downloads than Wine. Maybe switch to bi-weekly releases, as Gaim? > There are the other following sources > which are not tracked: > > - People following CVS > - People using the source releases The primary mirror for the source releases is sf. > - Gentoo users, Debian users, FreeBSD users, FoobarLinux users who use > apt-get or equivalents and so on. > > I would not be at all surprised if added up, the downloads from these > sources outnumbered the SF.net downloads by a fair bit. After all, > Alexandre felt that keeping ./tools/wineinstall was worth it even though > it doesn't do much these days simply because so many users would ask > (more) questions otherwise ... I think we need to better advertise major build/usage changes in Wine. The change to dosdevices still brings a lot of questions in #winehq, mostly from people modifying their config and finding nothing changes in Wine. People still want to change version on the commandline, or set desktop, or use --debugmsgs. Once in a while, I think a change which actually breaks things is good, as it forces people to learn the proper way to do something, and not rely on second-hand knowledge from 4 years ago. Of course letting the user know how to put it back together quickly is required :) Vincent
