Re: [Chicken-users] [PATCH] Compatability between eggs and chicken releases: a report on progress, and a patch!

[Christian Kellermann]

Hello Alaric,

* Alaric Snell-Pym <address@hidden> [111012 00:07]:
> It'll take a few years for this to become widespread enough to be
> statistically useful, of course, but the sooner we start, the better.
> 
> The user-agent strings it generates look like:
> 
> chicken-install 4.7.0.3-st linux x86-64

This is a neat idea!

> http://chicken.kitten-technologies.co.uk/visitors.html#User%20agents
> 
> Disturbingly, my biggest customer is a spider :-(
> 
> But it looks like the league table of chicken versions used to install
> eggs is:
> 
> 4.6.0 - 2338
> 4.5.0 - 1961
> 4.7.0 - 1336
> 4.2.0 - 1033
> 4.3.0 - 687
> 4.4.0 - 657
> 4.0.0 - 627
> 4.6.3 - 525
> 4.6.5 - 517
> 4.6.0rc1 - 335
> 
> If anything, it looks like 4.2.0 is an important version to think about,
> too! The logfile goes back to about April 2009, though - I should
> probably work out the user agents by month to see what the trends are
> and to not be swayed by the state of affairs a year ago.

I was going to ask whether the 4.2.0 might be an indication of the
rise and fall of a long forgotten empire...

In any case these statistics do help for our decisions on backwards
compatibility.

The patch is fine with me. If anyone else thinks this does improve
things, it should be pushed to master.

Kind regards,

Christian


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