Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] [OctDev] Fwd: Debian packagers want to know
On 12.03.2012, at 20:58, Carnë Draug wrote:
> On 12 March 2012 16:17, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh@octave.org> wrote:
>> So which packages are a priority?
>
> I thought the list of most installed packages you sent before was the
> basis to decide this.
>
> This can be compared with the list given in the sourceforge site but
> it's a bit hard to analyze since packages are released at different
> times. If someone decides to analyze it properly, consider that for a
> long time sourceforge decided to chose what was the best file to
> download based on the OS it thought the user was which means the
> octave binaries rather than the packages. I have changed this a few
> months ago to be the last package uploaded. This caused an increase on
> the number of packages being downloaded. This number decreases after a
> different package being uploaded which suggests that many people just
> click on whatever shows up on the "download latest release" at the
> homepage when looking for the actual octave binaries and doesn't
> actually mean they want that package. Also, not sure if downloading
> with the -forge flag on pkg shows up on the sourceforge statistics.
>
> Still, the packages with most downloads seem to be control, signal,
> miscellaneous and image.
>
> Carnë
To sum up, I updated the list of priority packages:
* control
* image
* io
* java (I've never used it so far, therefore I can't tell)
* odepkg (I use this quite often for solving ODEs)
* optim (and its dependencies miscellaneous and struct)
* signal
* statistics
Lukas
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