MacPorts Statistics

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Mar 28, 2014, at 7:03 PM, Craig Treleaven <ctreleaven at cogeco.ca> wrote:

> Branching the subject a little, perhaps, but...
> 
> Looking at the statistics page for a particular port, say libpng:
> 
> http://stats.macports.neverpanic.de/categories/22/ports/2455
> 
> This has a lot of information that a user might be interested in before installing a port.  Right now, the port search page on the web leads to the Portfile, eg:
> 
> https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/graphics/libpng/Portfile
> 
> which isn't the prettiest advertisement for a piece of software.
> 
> To me, the web search should give the potential user enough information to decide if whether to install the package or not.  A rough draft would be:
> 
> =================
> From Portfile:
> -port/subport name  (link to Portfile)
> -categories
> -version/revision
> -long_description
> -variants (list with descriptions)
> -homepage (as link)
> -license
> -platforms
> -supported_archs
> -dependencies (as links to other port pages; bonus marks if it could
> link to an rdeps graph!)
> 
> From statistics:
>> # reported installs
> -requested                /   last week, 1 month ago, 1 year ago
> -installed as dependency  /   last week, 1 month ago, 1 year ago
> -rank of reported installs, requested, last week:  xxx of 18,312
> -link to page with more detailed statistics
> 
> From buildbots or package server (if possible):
>> Dates of most recent builds
> -version built   /   Mavericks,  Mtn Lion,  Lion,      Snow Leopard
> Eg:
> 1.2.3_4              yesterday   yesterday  failed     unsupported
> (indicator if unsuccessful, not supported on that OS)
> =================
> 
> I don't know if the last section is even possible.  Would likely require the buildbots to update a database at the end of each build?
> 
> Thoughts?


I like the idea. I'm sure this is implied by your above text but it might be nice to have the build bots have mpstats installed by default to participate in the statistics.


Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)