gfortran binaries download

[Jerry DeLisle]

FX Coudert wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Attached is my semi-regular report on the download counts for gfortran 
> binaries from quatramaran.ens.fr. The y-axis is the number of unique IP 
> downloads for a given package during a week.
> 
> The x-axis is the week number, starting one year ago and ending two 
> weeks from now. Few quick remarks:
> 
>   - People are still download the linux package even when gfortran-4.1 
> is probably available in major distros; the download count isn't even 
> going down! I think we have a number of people regularly testing the 
> latest compiler, which is in line with bug-reports we get from 
> non-contributors that nevertheless use the mainline compiler
>   - The Windows user base is large and growing, especially for MinGW, 
> despite the fact that the current package is 4+ months old
>   - The Intel-MacOS package is already more downloaded than the 
> PowerPC-MacOS
> 
> Any other comments (or statistics from the x86_64 downloads, e.g.) are 
> welcome.
> 
> FX
> 
If the mingw package was not broken for that period of time, I suspect the mingw 
downloads would have increased more.  I can't build Cygwin package right now 
because of another breakage there, though the currently available binary is not 
too old yet.

Jerry