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C::B usage/download stats?

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Wyrm:
I was wondering if the C::B development team tracks usage and download counts over the last few years? C::B has improved greatly over the last few years and I'm curious to see how C::B stacks up against competition.

MortenMacFly:
This is really hard to tell, as it depends on you consider to include (i.e. all version, nightlies...) and unknown factors like counters on 3rd party repos.

For 12/11 only we have definitley crossed the 400.000 download counter meanwhile, but this does NOT include repos from 3rd party sources like for Ubuntu where we have no access to its counters and no sources like shareware/freeware sites, personal repos and so on.

So all I have count is 12/11 on BerliOS and SourceForge as the only primary location driven by us, but not our own additional private repos (i.e. Jens repo or pasgui).

Wyrm:
I was actually expecting a lot more. IMHO C::B has matured enough to compete for the top spots among other open source IDEs, with many excellent features enabled. I hope you'll consider pushing it into Mint/Ubuntu distros because they are still offering outdated version 10 in standard packages.

Anyways, I've just donated $25 to your project. It's not much but perhaps you can buy beer for the developers, especially that kind soul on your team who enabled visual debugging within the IDE. :) I don't really have any feature requests. Just wanted to thank the developers for this excellent contribution to the open source.

thomas:
Code::Blocks has 44,000 installations in the Ubuntu pop-contest. Only a bit over 2 million people participated in the pop contest, whereas Ubuntu advertised "at least 20 million daily users" and "setting goal for 200 million" back in 2011. So you can assume that the numbers in the pop-contest reflect considerably less than 10% of the real number.

In Debian's pop-contest, Code::Blocks scores 1746 installations out of 164770 submissions, but of course nobody knows how many users there exist in total.

The 5 biggest download sites give figurs in the 30k ballpark for 1.0, in the 40-45k range for 10.05 and in the 50-55k range for the 12.11 release each, with Softpedia claiming a stunning 107k downloads for 12.11. A dozen smaller sites give figures between 1.5k and 13k downloads each for various releases.

All in all, with these numbers, I do not think it's unreasonable or overly optimistic to assume one to two million installs total.

p.s.: Thank you for the beer, where do I get it?  ;D

MortenMacFly:

--- Quote from: thomas on May 21, 2013, 09:55:25 am ---All in all, with these numbers, I do not think it's unreasonable or overly optimistic to assume one to two million installs total.

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I would guess that, too. Just to remember: 12/11 only. MANY people still use / download 10/05...


--- Quote from: thomas on May 21, 2013, 09:55:25 am ---p.s.: Thank you for the beer, where do I get it?  ;D

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I believe its given to the poor Greek.

But thanks anyways, its highly appreciated! :-)

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