2 Sep
2007
2 Sep
'07
5:19 a.m.
On Sunday 02 September 2007 03:29, Hugh Perkins wrote:
A really simple way to track the "quality" of a package is to display the number of downloads.
A posteriorae, this works great in other download sites.
We can easily hypothesize about why a download count gives a decent indication of some measure of quality: [...]
... and even more easily hypothesize why this is not always a good indication: High-qualitiy standard libraries which are packaged with GHC/Hugs/... will probably almost never be downloaded separately. Cheers, S.