[tex-live] How many current TeX Live users are there?

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 2011-04-05 at 14:36:35 +0200, Pander wrote:

 > On 2011-04-05 13:58, George N. White III wrote:
 > > On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 5:19 AM, Pander <pander at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
 > > 
 > >> Does anyone know how many TeX Live users are out there?
 > > 
 > > What is a user?  Do you count the linux user who installs a source
 > > package and gets pdf docs formatted by the TL provided by the linux
 > > distro?   Some widely used tools such as R (free Splus implementation)
 > > have their own package manager and use TeX for documentation.
 > > 
 > >> It would be difficult to combine the download statistics from all
 > >> mirrors I assume or are these available (e.g. downloads per year).
 > 
 > Rephrase, how many installations of TeX Live (and MacTex) are there.
 > 
 > See my earlier comment too:
 > 
 > Would it be interesting to provide tlmgr and/or the installer with an
 > explicit (yet default yes preselected) question to anonymously report an
 > active installation (at installation time and e.g. each year after the
 > installation)?

There are no such programs for TL installations which are part of
Linux distributions.  It's also not worth the trouble.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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