(note: these are just some random thoughts to get the day started :-)) hi, is this really surprising? compilers (for any language) are only of interest to developers, while most applications written in the language have a wide user base, so i would assume that there are many situations where this holds (internet explorer more popular than visual c++?). of course, darcs itself is a tool aimed at developers, but again, haskell developers are a subset of all the developers that can use it. yet another thing (and this is debian specific) is that i use the darcs distributed with debian, which is old but works fine, but i don't use the ghc distributed with debian because it is old, and somewhat broken. still, it is good to know that a tool written in haskell is doing so well, but this is not surprising either, because after all, haskell is a pretty cool programming language. -iavor On 1/24/06, Isaac Jones wrote:

Greetings,

Debian has a system called popularity-contest, which is an opt-in survey of package use. I was curious to see the ranking of darcs among Haskell implementations themselves. The results: Darcs ranks higher than ghc and hugs.

#<name> is the package name; #<inst> is the number of people who installed this package; #<vote> is the number of people who use this package regularly; #<old> is the number of people who installed, but don't use this package # regularly; #<recent> is the number of people who upgraded this package recently; #<no-files> is the number of people whose entry didn't contain enough # information (atime and ctime were 0).

#rank name inst vote old recent no-files (maintainer) 138 darcs 563 159 280 124 0 (Isaac Jones) (51) hugs 304 119 157 28 0 (Isaac Jones) 321 ghc6 194 81 80 33 0 (Ian Lynagh)

Hugs is listed in a different category, so the ranking is off.

Ian Lynagh pointed me at this nice graph showing the historical installation of the three packages:

http://people.debian.org/~igloo/popcon-graphs/index.php?packages=ghc6,darcs,hugs&show_installed=on&want_percent=on&want_legend=on&beenhere=1

peace,

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