From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs's popularity
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:10:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oczc3m5s.fsf@kobe.laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87skop8cc7.fsf@iki.fi
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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2008-12-02 2:53 is there summary of template systems for emacs? Xah Lee
2008-12-02 4:28 ` Xah Lee
2008-12-03 0:34 ` Drew Adams
2008-12-07 19:14 ` Peter Milliken
[not found] ` <mailman.2168.1228677280.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-12-14 21:37 ` Xah Lee
2008-12-15 18:24 ` Distributed Maintenance for Emacs (was: is there summary of template systems for emacs?) Leo
2008-12-15 18:45 ` Distributed Maintenance for Emacs Paul R
2008-12-15 18:48 ` is there summary of template systems for emacs? Peter Milliken
2008-12-15 20:21 ` Peter Milliken
2008-12-15 19:46 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.2806.1229365513.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-12-15 19:31 ` Emacs's popularity (was: Distributed Maintenance for Emacs) Teemu Likonen
2008-12-15 20:42 ` Peter Milliken
2008-12-15 21:09 ` Jonathan Groll
2008-12-15 21:37 ` Emacs's popularity Teemu Likonen
2008-12-15 21:41 ` Lennart Borgman
[not found] ` <mailman.2823.1229377291.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-12-15 22:28 ` Richard Riley
2008-12-15 22:59 ` Lennart Borgman
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2008-12-15 23:40 ` Richard Riley
2008-12-16 0:53 ` Lennart Borgman
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2008-12-16 1:01 ` Richard Riley
2008-12-16 8:37 ` Lennart Borgman
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2008-12-16 10:41 ` Richard Riley
2008-12-16 2:37 ` Charles philip Chan
2008-12-16 10:09 ` Tim X
2008-12-16 11:20 ` Richard Riley
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2008-12-16 10:17 ` Tim X
2008-12-16 11:34 ` Phil Carmody
2008-12-16 11:58 ` Juanma Barranquero
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2008-12-16 12:36 ` Phil Carmody
2008-12-16 12:52 ` Juanma Barranquero
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2008-12-16 13:03 ` Phil Carmody
2008-12-16 14:07 ` Juanma Barranquero
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2008-12-16 15:09 ` Phil Carmody
2008-12-16 15:50 ` Richard Riley
2008-12-16 17:43 ` Andrea Vettorello
2008-12-16 16:05 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-12-16 16:21 ` Paul R
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2008-12-16 17:15 ` Richard Riley
2008-12-17 1:35 ` Phil Carmody
2008-12-16 16:56 ` Andreas Politz
2008-12-17 1:34 ` Phil Carmody
2008-12-17 7:43 ` Tim X
2008-12-17 14:17 ` B Smith-Mannschott
2008-12-15 23:55 ` Óscar Fuentes
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2008-12-16 10:21 ` Tim X
2008-12-16 12:35 ` William Case
2008-12-15 22:03 ` Emacs's popularity (was: Distributed Maintenance for Emacs) Drew Adams
2008-12-15 22:07 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-12-15 22:19 ` Drew Adams
2008-12-15 22:22 ` Lennart Borgman
[not found] ` <mailman.2830.1229379766.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-12-16 10:33 ` Emacs's popularity Tim X
2008-12-16 13:18 ` Emacs's popularity (was: Distributed Maintenance for Emacs) Jonathan Groll
2008-12-16 17:46 ` Drew Adams
2008-12-19 2:10 ` Sean Sieger
2008-12-18 16:30 ` David L
2008-12-18 17:50 ` Drew Adams
2008-12-19 16:53 ` David L
2008-12-19 17:20 ` Drew Adams
2008-12-19 2:37 ` Sean Sieger
[not found] ` <mailman.2825.1229378627.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-12-16 10:22 ` Tim X
2008-12-16 11:56 ` Richard Riley
2008-12-16 18:29 ` Drew Adams
2008-12-15 22:49 ` Emacs's popularity Teemu Likonen
2008-12-16 2:10 ` Giorgos Keramidas [this message]
2008-12-15 21:28 ` Distributed Maintenance for Emacs (was: is there summary of template systems for emacs?) Richard Riley
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