From: Sergey V. U. <ser...@cl...> - 2001-09-28 09:20:49
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> I was wondering if it wouldn't be interesting for all developers, especially > for those whose plugins are most common used and ESPECIALLY for Slava if > we'd be provided with some usage statistics. To do it _fair_, you'll have to _ask_ user's permission to do this sort of spying. So the statistics will be shifted - it only exposes users who do not care about security, privacy etc. Probably it's better than nothing but in some cases it can be worse than nothing. For example, you may think that function f1 is called more often then f2 and spend a lot of time optimizing it. But _actually_ (I mean for _all_ users) f2 is more important. The probability of these things is very low but still... Anyway, it seems a bit Microsoftish style... I think this feature would do nothing good for the image of jEdit. Regards, Sergey |