Thread: 510 maemo 5 Downloads! just passed OS2008 count.
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2010-09-11 , 18:52
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Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
i don't think it took long: os2008 is older, so people had much more time to develop for it (and they still do).
Sure, but the user population is much larger (the scale of the download stats for various common packages looks about 10x bigger on Fremantle). I'm wondering why the population of developers or apps hasn't grown proportionally as well.

also and more importantly, the quality control procedure wasn't in place for os2008. you would probably have to add extras and extras-testing from maemo 5 and compare it to os2008's extras to get a valid result.
Are there many packages that have never passed QA in extras-testing (if they had passed even once they'd be in extras anyway)?

Edit: as determined by counting user-visible (Section: user/*) packages in each repository's Packages file, Diablo extras has 530 packages while Fremantle extras has 489 and Fremantle extras-testing 696. This is not quite the same as "Downloads" which includes stuff hosted elsewhere, but I don't know how to compare that and include -testing at the same time.
Last edited by lma; 2010-09-11 at 19:53.