[Lazarus] Lazarus platform "popularity contest"

João Marcelo Vaz jmsvaz at gmail.com
Thu Aug 12 18:27:25 CEST 2010


2010/8/11 Ger Remmers <ger-remmers at kc.rr.com>

>  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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