Possibly, though not statistically valid, perhaps, in the wider sense
(extreme internal activity can skew).

Gary.
  -----Original Message-----
  From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
[mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org]On Behalf Of Mariano
Martinez Peck
  Sent: 02 July 2008 5:30 PM
  To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
  Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] [Squeak-dev Images] About the different flavors


  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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