On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 04:55:52PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If you have a look at the order of the by_vote numbers for editors, > > you'll see that vim, not nvi or nano, is at the top. > > A list like this only seems meaningful if the entries are fairly > consistent with each other. > > For instance, if you have packages like: > > PACKAGE NAME USE COUNT > ----------------------------------------- > EDITOR-1 123 > EDITOR-2-VERSION-3 55 > EDITOR-2-VERSION-3.1 49 > EDITOR-2-VERSION-4 73 > > The package "EDITOR-1" is "more popular" than any other _package_, but > one could also fairly say that EDITOR-2 is actually more popular than > EDITOR-1 in general. Which should be higher priority?
Good point. I would say that all three should receive approximately the priority of all three editors combined, but with version 4 slightly more than version 3, and version 3 in turn slightly more than version 3.1 How's that sound? -- Fun will now commence -- Seven Of Nine, "Ashes to Ashes", stardate 53679.4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
