Re: [HACKERS] Some download statistics

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Magnus Hagander wrote:

> 3) There doesnt' seem to be much point to the distribution splits. A
> total of less than 5% the *number* of downloads. And most people
> probably get more than one file, so in reality that number shuold
> proably be divided by 4 or 5.
> I know several people who downloaded source *plus* the split ones,
> because "hey, I need postgresql. And I certainly need base too. And I
> need docs.". They don't realise it's included in the main tarball.
> Frankly, I'd suggest dropping the splits. Thoughts?

this tracks only those going in through the web ... this doesn't track
those using an ftp client going in and downloading files ... specifically,
I know that all of the FreeBSD ports are based on the split distributions
... in the case of the postgresql80-server port, it only downloads base
and opt and ignores the rest ...

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