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<font face="FreeSerif">Some time ago, I changed Xiphos' use of the
Installmgr ctor to include <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:xiphos@xiphos.org">"xiphos@xiphos.org"</a> as the default
anonymous ftp "password." If you're not aware, for anon ftp, this
"password" is not an access password; it's just a token that
allows the server to track some idea of who or what has accessed
its content.<br>
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Then in recent v4, I changed it again so that it now identifies
Xiphos further, using <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:platform+version@xiphos.org">platform+version@xiphos.org</a>, e.g.
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:L4.0.1@xiphos.org">L4.0.1@xiphos.org</a>. This is current only since March 30, so its
use and presence is a clear minority at this time.<br>
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The result of this is that I am able to get some firm ideas about
what is retrieving which modules from xferlog files. The data is
not personally identifiable; it's just a sense of the apps in use.<br>
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I spent some time grinding through my ftp server's xferlog since
March 1. Daily, my repo shovels ~4.4Gbytes, with high standard
deviation (low, 1.1G; high, 10.7G). I've attached several small
summary files:<br>
- overall totals<br>
- by Xiphos generally, and by Xiphos v4, and by which of Linux and
Windows of Xiphos v4<br>
- by PocketSword, because Nic made a similar change to identify
PS, but not by version<br>
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Interesting statistics:<br>
- 10208 modules downloaded<br>
- 2952 from PocketSword<br>
- 2830 from Xiphos<br>
- 305 of those were Xiphos v4<br>
(already more than 10% of Xiphos retrievals, in only the last 12
out of 43 days examined)<br>
- 58 of those were Linux, the other 247 were Windows<br>
- Weirdness: PocketSword users refresh the repo <i>often</i>:<br>
3035 retrievals of mods.d.tar.gz. Xiphos, only 963.<br>
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I would like to encourage other app developers to make a similar
trivial change in the use of the InstallMgr ctor, to provide some
kind of identifying token. At the moment, only Xiphos and PS do
so, and all the rest show up as <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:installmgr@user.com,">"installmgr@user.com,"</a> which
doesn't really tell us much.<br>
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