Re: [lang] Usage statistics

2010-08-08 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Oliver, Oliver Heger wrote: > I plan to write an article about the changes in the new Lang version for > a German Magazine and would like to quote some statistics about the > usage of this library to stress its importance. > > Can you point me somewhere where to find such figures? For instanc

Re: [lang] Usage statistics

2010-08-08 Thread Oliver Heger
Am 08.08.2010 09:47, schrieb Henri Yandell: Not a lot - the best stat I know of is: https://www.osscensus.org/packages-rank-public.php It places Lang at 11th at 50% of surveyed machines. More popular than activation.jar or junit.jar :) [Or samba, openoffice, openssl etc, and with just a little

Re: [lang] Usage statistics

2010-08-08 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2010-08-07, Oliver Heger wrote: > For instance, are there statistics about downloads from the Maven > central repository or something like that? Since mvn itself and lots of the mvn plugins use commons-lang such a statistic would only tell you how many people use mvn and not whether the projec

Re: [lang] Usage statistics

2010-08-08 Thread Henri Yandell
Not a lot - the best stat I know of is: https://www.osscensus.org/packages-rank-public.php It places Lang at 11th at 50% of surveyed machines. More popular than activation.jar or junit.jar :) [Or samba, openoffice, openssl etc, and with just a little more work we could eclipse Eclipse]. I'm not s

[lang] Usage statistics

2010-08-07 Thread Oliver Heger
I plan to write an article about the changes in the new Lang version for a German Magazine and would like to quote some statistics about the usage of this library to stress its importance. Can you point me somewhere where to find such figures? For instance, are there statistics about downloads