2010/8/11 Ger Remmers <[email protected]>
> On Wednesday 11 August 2010 07:07:21 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > > Bernd Kreuss wrote: > > > On 10.08.2010 22:29, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > > >> I don't know how anybody else feels, but I'd have no objection to a > > >> "popularity contest" extension which submitted anonymous platform > > >> details > > > > > > This would be cool! Maybe even FPC itself could create these > statistics. > > > Something like this with really big numbers (after aggregating all > > > > > users) would look quite impressive: > > I have to say that I don't know how to write this sort of thing, either > > from the point of view of Lazarus or from the point of view of making it > > acceptable to users rather than looking like intrusive spyware. > > > > But I think the really useful thing, far more than just aggregating > > number of lines of code, would be picking up when somebody tried to > > compile either Lazarus itself or an app for a specific CPU/OS/widget > > set, including cases where that combination failed. > > > > How many people get Lazarus (on any platform) and try it out without > > joining the mailing list or commenting on a project forum? Of these, how > > many drop it because they have a problem compiling a project? How can we > > find out where the problem areas are, without getting feedback from > > these anonymous users? > > > > If we had- for example- aggregated statistics for "This copy of Lazarus" > > on one of the about tabs, how could we also roll in e.g. somebody > > attempting to build Lazarus from the command line (make clean bigide) > > who found it didn't work because he'd got the wrong version of the KDE > > libraries (been there done that)? > > To be brutally honest, I don't like any form of "ET, phone home" things in > a > program. > > Why not? > Because it is nobodies business [how / if / what for] I or anybody else > uses > the compiler. It has been put out there as open source, no strings > attached. > > If you want usage information then ask for it on the website or here in the > mailing list. Let Lazarus pop up after first install asking for usage info, > but never ever have Lazarus/fpc send info in the back ground. > > Regards, > > Ger > > -- > > I wouldn't mind if on the first run of the Lazarus IDE after a new install, the IDE asked me if it could send some info to the web, like FPC version, OS, CPU, LCL version and Widgetset. João Marcelo
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