Bug 37432

Summary: www; script to generate plot of ports growth
Product: Documentation Reporter: Dan Nelson <dnelson>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: Alexey Zelkin <phantom>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   
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Description Dan Nelson 2002-04-24 23:00:02 UTC 
From http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ :

 The FreeBSD Ports and Packages Collection offers a simple way for
 users and administrators to install applications. The ports collection
 has been <a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/~asami/papers/growth.gif">
 growing at a tremendous rate</a>.

Problem is, that gif is out of date; it's almost 2 years old.  It sort
of reminds me of Disco Stu on the Simpsons:

 "Did you know that disco record sales were up 400% for the year ending
  1976? If these trends continue... AYYY!"

Fix: getinfo.sh will scan the INDEX file in /usr/ports, count the lines in
each revision, and use ports.plt to generate a plot similar to asami's
original one.  The ports.log in this sharfile has been seeded with
counts from all revisions, even before the repo cleanup in March, so it
has all the datapoints asami's plot had.  Just run the script once
every few months to stay current.
Comment 1 Alexey Zelkin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-04-25 14:35:29 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->phantom

Looks interesting. I'll try to get it in.
Comment 2 Dan Nelson 2002-05-17 16:49:10 UTC 
Forgot to mention; there's sample output at 
http://dan.allantgroup.com/ports/ so you can see what it looks like.
Comment 3 Alexey Zelkin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-05-20 16:57:31 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

See http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/growth/status.png. 

Thanks for submission!