What about the times a package has been downloaded?

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Gary Chambers <gazzaguru2 at btinternet.com>
wrote:

> Or, perhaps more importantly, is it something that most developers would
> want in their image.
> Tricky question, as always.
>
> Gary.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> > [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org]On Behalf Of
> > Damien Cassou
> > Sent: 02 July 2008 4:36 PM
> > To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> > Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] [Squeak-dev Images] About the different
> > flavors
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Ramon Leon
> > <ramon.leon at allresnet.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> I'm aware of this problem and I already tried to push the Rio package
> > >> this way. I think I failed because I don't see much activity around
> > >> Rio. So maybe an inclusion in dev-images is not enough to advert a
> > >> package. I don't know.
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> Damien Cassou
> > >
> > > I'd hate to see the dev image become a showroom for packages,
> > I'd rather see
> > > it continue to be loaded with stuff most developers would load
> > anyway.  A
> > > package should probably be fairly popular and useful to even be
> > considered
> > > for inclusion in the dev image because as soon as I have to start
> taking
> > > things out of it, I'll stop using it and go back to building my own.
> >
> > This is the conclusion I also arrived at. However, things are not
> > properly defined: how do you determine the popularity of a package?
> > what is the threshold?
> >
> > --
> > Damien Cassou
> > Peter von der Ahé: «I'm beginning to see why Gilad wished us good
> > luck». (http://blogs.sun.com/ahe/entry/override_snafu)
> >
>
>
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