Le lun 20/09/2004 à 11:53, Mike Hearn a écrit :
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