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Re: Emacs's popularity


From: Giorgos Keramidas
Subject: Re: Emacs's popularity
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:10:23 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (berkeley-unix)

On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:31:21 GMT, Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> wrote:
> Are people being scared off in the first place? I mean more than
> normally. :-)
>
> I don't know but at least among Debian GNU/Linux users Emacs's
> popularity doesn't seem to have decreased. Here's a Debian popularity
> contest[1] graph that shows the popularity of packages emacs21,
> emacs21-nox, emacs22, emacs22-nox and emacs22-gtk:
>
>     http://preview.tinyurl.com/55stry [2]
>
> The graph shows that Emacs22 started gaining popularity around mid-2007
> (the release) and Emacs21 started losing it. Those summed together Emacs
> is no less popular than before. The latest official Debian release (4.0
> "Etch") includes Emacs21.
>
> This popularity measurement category is called "vote". It means that
> user has accessed (atime) the files in the package within 30 days. It
> roughly means that the software is actually being used, not only
> installed.

Or being regularly copied to a backup medium (unless Debian takes
explicit measures to avoid messing up with the atime when a backup
program iterates over the filesystem).

Nice graphs though :-)



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