How to find out how often a port file has been downloaded?

[Jeremy Lavergne]

Just make it opt in.

"Bradley Giesbrecht" <brad at pixilla.com> wrote:

>
>On Apr 17, 2010, at 5:48 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>>
>> On Apr 17, 2010, at 18:55, Marko Käning wrote:
>>
>>> I was just thinking that it might be helpful to know which ports  
>>> are most actively used by the community.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to determine how often ports got actually installed?
>>>
>>> That would be perhaps some help when it is up to decide which ports  
>>> need special care, don't you think?
>>
>> Yes, I think it would be useful. When I suggested it a few years ago  
>> someone thought this would be an invasion of privacy (tracking who  
>> installed what ports) so nothing was done. So currently there isn't  
>> a good way to track this.
>
>Wouldn't doing an md5 of identity (machine serial or something) or  
>some other identity protection be adequate?
>You have to register with apple to get dev tools.
>
>I would think that knowing this information would be helpful enough in  
>prioritizing ticket fixes that the privacy tradeoff would be an  
>acceptable cost.
>
>
>// Brad
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