Suggestion

Chris Jones jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
Tue May 28 15:17:10 PDT 2013


Hi,

On 28 May 2013, at 10:59 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:

> 
> On May 28, 2013, at 16:56, Craig Treleaven wrote:
> 
>> I'd like to know that a port has been successfully installed, recently.  IOW that it hasn't suffered bitrot!
> 
> To some degree, you can answer that already, by checking if there is a recent package on the packages server.

I was about to say the same. To my mind, this question is much better/simply answered by just checking to see if the build bots successfully built the port question. I don't see what you gain by getting user stats as well.

Chris

> 
> To answer it with statistics, we would not only have to phone home to track successful port installs, but also keep track of install dates, not just a count of installs. Presumably we could keep just the latest install date.

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