[Popcon-developers] popcon for smolt quickhack

[Bill Allombert]

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 03:07:36AM +0200, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
> hello!
> 
> 
> i'm currently extending the smolt hardware tracker by a gentoo-specific
> software statistics as a google summer of code project.
> the long term mission for smolt is to collect statistics across distros.
> 
> for fun and to move a bit further into the cross-distro direction i have
> been quick-porting the "popularity-contest" script of popcon 1.48 to
> smolt (python) in my smolt git repo today.

There is a major issue with replacing popcon: the more external programs popcon
is using, the more it is distording the result. So it should use only essential
packages and as few as possible. Popularity-contest only use dpkg and 
perl-base.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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