From: Rene Rivera (grafik.list_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-06-11 22:51:15
Andy Little wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Yesterday the download figures for Boost Vault/Physical Quantities
> Units/pqs_3_1_1.zip stood at about 280 or so. Today they stand at 4. (and BTW a
> larger margin for the release notes).
>
> Something similar seems to have happened to Asger Mangaards pimpl_ptr library
> where the number of downloads seems to have gone from 1500(?) or so to 2.
>
> No other libraries in the Vault seem to have been so affected.
>
> It means that the downloads figures, which must help potential users to gauge
> popularity, health, performance etc of libraries in the Vault, ( and for which
> there is even a league table), gives an entirely false impression.
>
> What's going on?
No real clue :-( Only possibility is that the count file got corrupted
by simultaneous updates and the count file got recreated.
Pointers to better file vault software appreciated ;-)
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