On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 09:20:30AM -0700, Jan Dubois wrote: > On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Jesse Vincent wrote: > > Would any list member who is still using Perl 5.6 in production please > > speak up? > > I don't have updated numbers, but for the period of January-May 2007 > there have been an average of 1000 Perl 5.6 and 4500 Perl 5.8 downloads > per day of the Windows binaries from the ActiveState download servers. > The relative percentage was the same for Linux and Solaris, but with > lower absolute numbers. > > I only got those numbers because the Komodo group was doing some > download stat analysis, so it isn't trivial for me to get more up-to- > date numbers (and they may not be representative for people trying > to compile Perl themselves anyways). The ratio is useful, albeit for a slightly different period (pre 5.10.0, rather than several months afterwards). I'm surprised how high 5.6 is. I wonder (but understand that you're unlikely to be able to get them) what the 5.10/5.8/5.6 ratios are now. I wonder how (and where) we could get the download ratio for source. Redirects from perl.org? And whether it's even usefully comparable - it might be that if people download binaries they do it from ActiveState, but if they want to build from source, they go direct to CPAN. Nicholas ClarkThread Previous | Thread Next