From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giorgos Keramidas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs's popularity Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:10:23 +0200 Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source Message-ID: <87oczc3m5s.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <2103fd36-c5cd-4e8d-a74f-34697a369934@a26g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <003101c954de$f95a3000$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <87skop8cc7.fsf@iki.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229395325 24313 80.91.229.12 (16 Dec 2008 02:42:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 02:42:05 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 16 03:43:10 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LCPts-0008Op-P6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:43:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45827 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LCPsg-0005xj-Pd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:41:54 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:BeyKpOtzV6m66IUR2gexsFM4BZM= Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 77.49.122.59 Original-X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=DLm?HQo9d_TlW2_Qa?Yk]^YSB=nbEKnk[jL0kO3l6od^L^MjWbH?lJH1Tkj\; 0EVH0noc9UXd<[a6CNLZW Original-X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:165334 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:60666 Archived-At: On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:31:21 GMT, Teemu Likonen 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 :-)