Re: Octave download statistics

[Shai Ayal]

Well, I guess this is going to be one of the mysteries we will learn to 
live with ....
Maybe a clue is the 7904 downloads of octave-forge 2006-07-10 listed on 
sourceforge. This number suffers all the limitation you cite, but still, 
 I think this means octave has at least several 10,000's of users

Shai

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 13-Dec-2006, Shai Ayal wrote:
>
> | Are there download totals for octave?
>
> How would you get this?  I would guess most people using Octave now
> are using binary distributions (various Linux, OS/X, and Cygwin
> distributions).  There are many mirrors and ways to get these
> packages, so how would you count them all?
>
> Also, do you count each download as a user?  Maybe one download is
> used by tens or hundreds.  Maybe the package is installed but never
> used.  Maybe someone downloads just to look at the sources.
>
> I no longer keep the log files at ftp.octave.org now since I don't
> think that whatever number I would get from looking at the logs would
> mean much anyway.
>
> jwe