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From:
Ronald J Kimball
Date:
October 9, 2009 13:39
Subject:
Re: future of maint
Message ID:
20091009203944.GC68249@penkwe.pair.com
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 01:10:17PM -0700, Jan Dubois wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Oct 2009, Ronald J Kimball wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 12:05:08PM -0700, Jan Dubois wrote:
> > > I just had a cursory look at ActivePerl download statistics for last
> > > month and they seem to be split 75% for 5.10, 20% for 5.8 and 5% for 5.6,
> > > which doesn't support your assumption that more people are using 5.8 than
> > > 5.10 (I only have a pie chart, so the numbers are approximate).
> >
> > This statistic does not tell us anything meaningful about which version of
> > Perl people are using in general. It only gives us information about new
> > installations, which unsurprisingly favor the newest version.
>
> That is not correct, it gives us information about which versions of
> Perl people are *installing*, either new, or as an update. People who
> run an old version of Perl and don't upgrade are irrelevant for the
> discussion of making maintenance releases because they won't install
> them anyways.
We seem to be in agreement. These statistics tell us what people are
currently installing, not what people are running in general. It sounds
like the former is the useful information anyway, so, great.
Ronald
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