Re: [jazzplusplus-devel] File releases

[Dave F. <da...@da...>]

On Wednesday 01 December 2004 11:18 pm, Dave Fancella wrote:
> Here's our stats page, if you guys happen to get curious:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/?group_id=104252
>
> 18 downloads so far.  Not bad.  I released the first version of pyExtractor
> the same day, and it's got 16 downloads.  :)  (No history though,
> pyExtractor essentially appeared out of nowhere as far as anyone else is
> concerned)  No point, just that I'm checking stats right now of projects
> I've made releases for recently.  ;)

71 downloads in 5 days.  Not bad for a broken source release.  :)  Now if 
people would just start telling us how it works for them....

Dave

> Page views are interesting.  I'll bet we'd easily start getting 50
> downloads a day if we had a windows binary release.  *sigh*  So much work,
> so little time.  I want to move to Mars so I can have 30 hour days instead
> of these piddly 24-hour days.
>
> Dave
>
> On Monday 29 November 2004 09:17 am, Dave Fancella wrote:
> > Oh yeah, I just updated the website and made a news item for it.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > On Monday 29 November 2004 09:03 am, Dave Fancella wrote:
> > > On Sunday 14 November 2004 12:56 pm, Joakim Verona wrote:
> > > > Dave Fancella <da...@da...> writes:
> > > >
> > > > That would be nice, Dave!
> > > >
> > > > /Joakim
> > >
> > > Thank you.  :)  It is done.  No binary packages, sorry.  Also, I just
> > > did a cvs checkout and tarred the whole thing.  No time to test "make
> > > dist" and tweak it until it's right, assuming it wouldn't work the
> > > first time. (It is a new build system, after all)
> > >
> > > Hopefully that'll get some people at least downloading it and playing
> > > with it.  :)
> > >
> > > I'm getting good at this file release thing.  :)  It's a piece of cake.
> > > Heh. (been clearing out older projects sitting on my hard drive and
> > > releasing or deleting them, so I've made a few releases recently) 
> > > Here's hoping we'll get someone to come along and throw some patches at
> > > us, eh?
> > >
> > > Dave
> > >
> > > > > All,
> > > > >
> > > > > Ok, we should make a file release.  :) If someone wants to give up
> > > > > an rpm I'll do it.  (I can make a source tarball to release myself,
> > > > > no problem)
> > > > >
> > > > > How I came to that conclusion is interesting.  :) I started making
> > > > > file releases of pyAlarm a few months back, and it's been
> > > > > downloaded a lot since then.  Well, seems like a lot to me, but it
> > > > > gets 0-5 downloads a day, which is surprising considering it's just
> > > > > an alarm clock.  And I've been getting email (not a lot, but some)
> > > > > from people asking for a Windows version, and asking when it'll do
> > > > > <this> or <that>.  Still no patches submitted or anything, but it
> > > > > is a niche program.  So I think we'll do better for help if we make
> > > > > a file release.  A binary under Linux that people can download and
> > > > > execute and *see* that it works, and a source tarball so people can
> > > > > download it and screw with the code.
> > > > >
> > > > > So, if somebody wants to give up a binary package or three, send
> > > > > 'em my way and I'll do the file release.  Having just done several
> > > > > for pyAlarm, I'm getting familiar with sourceforge's system for
> > > > > file releases.  I'll try to do at least a source tarball in the
> > > > > next week or so (we'll see) whether or not I have something binary
> > > > > to put up.
> > > > >
> > > > > Dave
> > > > >
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