On 8/26/25 21:46, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote:
Well, it is, but it looks like it's also a narrow perspective that doesn't necessarily dominates. I'll just say, I'd love to have access to the same statistics for my packages just so I get a good clear data on what's going on. Like, are people in China using my stuff?
i don't think i will ever try to publish JOINed queries (as in: "how many people in *china* download *else*" or "how many users of *macOS* use *Pd-0.50*" or "who is this guy from *brazil* who keeps asking for *Gem* to run with *Pd-0.41* on their *macOS/Sequioa*").
Many libraries are from the extended libraries, are people still relying on them to keep some old patches alive?
that might be interesting indeed.
but what *I* am interested for now is: what would you make of it, if people still have a need for e.g. "jasch_lib"?
I mean: if I have a piece from 2006, that I haven't played since then and now want to perform it again, chances are that I will need some old objects (even if just for verifying that my migration to Pd-0.56 is still doing what it should). there's nothing wrong with that. (but i seriously doubt that it will make any statistical impact, if I do this 3 times, to setup my laptop (twice, because i botched it) and the laptop of the performer).
so what are the *possible* conclusions, if you see that people look for "jasch_lib"?
people would probably still look for "jasch_lib", if their patch depends on that library. the mere existance of [strlen] in some other library doesn't mean that it behaves the same)
We got a good picture on "all externals", but I bet developers would like to see what's really the case for specific packages...
letme rephrase my concern: if you see that your external hasn't had any downloads for the last 24 months, would you stop publishing it (since nobody cares anyhow)? and what if somebody *then* needs it desperately to perform their piece on their new hardware?
i somewhat understand the eagerness to see the performance of your own "product". i often look for that information for my own packages (e.g. on pypi). but to be honest, it is mostly to satisfy my own ego. and the practical implications are nil.
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