Re: Suggestion: Ace-window in Emacs core for switching windows?

[Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>]

Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:

> Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I don't use ace-window myself, but note that it is the 28th most popular
>> package on MELPA with 1,773,799 downloads, only slightly behind
>> 'which-key' in popularity that we just added to core.
>>
>> See: https://melpa.org/#/?sort=downloads&asc=false
>
> Popularity on MELPA correlates with age, especially since AFAIU they
> count every upgrade as a download, so I am always hesitant to deduce too
> much from data like these, especially when the popularity of a package
> might be due to a missing feature in the core, that has since been added
> or improved on.

All valid points, of course.  These statistics are far from perfect.
We also have users that download from GNU ELPA, directly from the
repository, etc.

At the same time, not all old packages reach such a high number of
downloads on MELPA -- some amount of popularity _is_ required.  As one
data point, one of my own packages is several years older than
ace-window, yet has a measly 3,000 downloads.  :-)