On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 7:49 AM, Marco Atzeri <marco.atz...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > following a unpleasant discussion about cygwin usability > https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2018-04/msg00364.html > I wondered how many users cygwin have. >
Younger people seem to prefer MSYS due to its use of pacman. Admittedly, it is very convenient. Otherwise Cygwin (or MSYS) has always been accepted (at least amongst everyone I talk to) as a necessity. Even if the updates aren't automatic due to the DLL issue, a CLI interface to the updater would help. > I decided to look at cygwin web server statistics for setup > download to have some basic data. > > The web server log are stored for 12 weeks and I see that the number of > download per week of setup-x86_64.exe are relative stable. > > cygwin-combined_log-20180204.gz 94749 > cygwin-combined_log-20180211.gz 92740 > cygwin-combined_log-20180218.gz 82597 > cygwin-combined_log-20180225.gz 92420 > cygwin-combined_log-20180304.gz 101957 > cygwin-combined_log-20180311.gz 98670 > cygwin-combined_log-20180318.gz 97539 > cygwin-combined_log-20180325.gz 98178 > cygwin-combined_log-20180401.gz 96515 > cygwin-combined_log-20180408.gz 90326 > cygwin-combined_log-20180415.gz 95458 > cygwin-combined_log-20180422.gz 92738 > > with an average 94490 download per week. > > For the 32bit version the number instead are > around a quarter of the 64bit one. > > cygwin-combined_log-20180204.gz 23567 > cygwin-combined_log-20180211.gz 31473 > cygwin-combined_log-20180218.gz 35067 > cygwin-combined_log-20180225.gz 27618 > cygwin-combined_log-20180304.gz 26236 > cygwin-combined_log-20180311.gz 31383 > cygwin-combined_log-20180318.gz 27372 > cygwin-combined_log-20180325.gz 23872 > cygwin-combined_log-20180401.gz 20486 > cygwin-combined_log-20180408.gz 21647 > cygwin-combined_log-20180415.gz 21793 > cygwin-combined_log-20180422.gz 21563 > > with an average 26006 download per week. > > So in total we have around 120 K download per week > of the two setup exe's > > As curiosity the raw data of x86 download were > very high in February due to a single > Windows 98 in Japan that was downloading 201122 > times in a week the setup-x86.exe > > Regards > Marco > > > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
