How to find out how often a port file has been downloaded?

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Apr 17, 2010, at 5:48 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

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> On Apr 17, 2010, at 18:55, Marko Käning wrote:
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>> I was just thinking that it might be helpful to know which ports  
>> are most actively used by the community.
>>
>> Is there a way to determine how often ports got actually installed?
>>
>> That would be perhaps some help when it is up to decide which ports  
>> need special care, don't you think?
>
> Yes, I think it would be useful. When I suggested it a few years ago  
> someone thought this would be an invasion of privacy (tracking who  
> installed what ports) so nothing was done. So currently there isn't  
> a good way to track this.

Wouldn't doing an md5 of identity (machine serial or something) or  
some other identity protection be adequate?
You have to register with apple to get dev tools.

I would think that knowing this information would be helpful enough in  
prioritizing ticket fixes that the privacy tradeoff would be an  
acceptable cost.


// Brad