
Hi. Debian some time ago introduced the popularity context, to find the most installed/used packages: http://popcon.debian.org/ Is it possible to do something similar with Cabal? From popularity-context FAQ: "For each package, popularity-contest looks at the most recently used (based on atime) files, and reports the filename, its last access time (atime) and last change time (ctime). However, some files are not considered, because they have unreliable atime." "A computer 'vote' for a package if according to the data provided in the report, a program provided or depending on the package was used less than thirty days ago. This computation is performed by the popcon server." Manlio Perillo

On 2009 Feb 25, at 18:06, Manlio Perillo wrote:
Debian some time ago introduced the popularity context, to find the most installed/used packages: http://popcon.debian.org/
Is it possible to do something similar with Cabal?
I believe that's a planned feature for Hackage. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH

On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 00:56 -0500, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
On 2009 Feb 25, at 18:06, Manlio Perillo wrote:
Debian some time ago introduced the popularity context, to find the most installed/used packages: http://popcon.debian.org/
Is it possible to do something similar with Cabal?
I believe that's a planned feature for Hackage.
It'll use download stats and the count of anonymous build reports. It will not do what popcorn does which is look at how frequently installed programs are used. Duncan
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Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
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Duncan Coutts
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Manlio Perillo