From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E928BC88 for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 09:53:59 +0100 (CET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j178rwu9003470 for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 09:53:59 +0100 Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA25835 for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 09:53:58 +0100 (MET) Received: from smtp11.wanadoo.fr (smtp11.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.31]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j178rw2U008598 for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 09:53:58 +0100 Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf1102.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 2227B1C000B5; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 09:53:58 +0100 (CET) Received: from pegasos (AStrasbourg-251-1-57-187.w82-126.abo.wanadoo.fr [82.126.137.187]) by mwinf1102.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id EE17C1C000A2; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 09:53:57 +0100 (CET) X-ME-UUID: 20050207085357975.EE17C1C000A2@mwinf1102.wanadoo.fr Received: from luther by pegasos with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Cy4a1-0006aw-9L; Mon, 07 Feb 2005 09:49:13 +0100 Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 09:49:13 +0100 To: yminsky@cs.cornell.edu Cc: Caml Mailing List Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Estimating the size of the ocaml community Message-ID: <20050207084912.GA25146@pegasos> References: <891bd33905020213315a2ebb18@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <891bd33905020213315a2ebb18@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i From: Sven Luther X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 42072CA6.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 42072CA6.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 ocaml:01 sven:01 luther:01 sven:01 luther:01 yaron:01 minsky:01 wrote:01 ocaml:01 runtime:01 maintainer:01 debian:02 debian:02 size:95 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Level: On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 04:31:28PM -0500, Yaron Minsky wrote: > I've been trying to come up with some estimates on the size of the ocaml > community, and I'm wondering if others have come up with anything better. > Here's what I have so far: I don't know if it is interesting for what you need, but the debian popularity contest : http://popcon.debian.org/ shows ocaml starting at position 1858 : #rank name inst vote old recent no-files (maintainer) 1858 ocaml-base-nox 743 238 396 109 0 (Sven Luther) But this may be biased by the split of ocaml between different packages, ocaml-base-nox is the runtime without X related libraries. The most used packages (adduser for the per inst sorting) is around 6000, so this would mean that about 10% install ocaml stuff, since inst is : # is the number of people who installed this package; Naturally, the results are probably biased by the way popularity contest is run. popularity contest (popcon) is a package which you can install but which is not installed by default, and where you can opt-in into the mechanism, which sends (weekly ?) emails about the installed packages to the debian popularity-contest. Still, this means that at least 743 people have it installed, that 238 "use this package regularly", and 109 have recently upgraded it. No idea about how the "use this package regularly" numbers are calculated though. Hope this kind of info is helpful to your estimates ? Friendly, Sven Luther