Re: [PEAR-DEV] Re: [pear-webmaster] "Popular Packages"

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Michael Gauthier <[email protected]>wrote:

> On 2011-10-30 07:19, Alexey Borzov wrote:
>
>> Also WTF is File_Mogile? Does it really have 100K downloads a month
>>>> or is
>>>> this creative approach to foreign key constraints?
>>>> http://pear.php.net/package-****stats.php?pid=843&cid=9<http://pear.php.net/package-**stats.php?pid=843&cid=9>
>>>> <http:/**/pear.php.net/package-stats.**php?pid=843&cid=9<http://pear.php.net/package-stats.php?pid=843&cid=9>
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I dunno - it's a client for http://danga.com/mogilefs/ ; and obviously
>>>>
>>> there's a lot of people pushing applications into the cloud; plus someone
>>> is running off writing a pecl extension too. It's vaguely conceivable
>>>
>>
>> It just looks fishy that this package has around the same number of
>> downloads as PEAR installer itself. With *zero* bug reports and feature
>> requests throughout its history:
>>
>> http://pear.php.net/bugs/**search.php?cmd=display&**
>> package_name[]=File_Mogile&**status=All<http://pear.php.net/bugs/search.php?cmd=display&package_name[]=File_Mogile&status=All>
>>
>>
>> Are these legitimate downloads (even if automated somehow) or DB
>> corruption?
>>
>>  It's possible that downloading the package from from PEAR is part of
> someone's cloud deployment script. It's not strange to have thousands of
> deployments a month. I blame Digg.
>

Is there an easy way to find software which relies on the package? I think
mediawiki does (I'm not absolutely sure, but I think there's an option to
use MogileFS for storage). Maybe it's something like that. Who knows. ;-)

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