On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 14:32:51 -0400, Dave Cramer <pg@fastcrypt.com> wrote:
> Vladimir,
>
> To be honest I don't really know. The difficult part about this is that
we
> could put up a survey and ask "what version of JVM do you use" I suspect
> that 1.8 will be overwhelmingly popular. The problem is the subset of
> people responding may not be representative of the population that is
using
> it. From my experience working with bigger companies they view JDBC as a
> simple tool. The metaphor that comes to mind is a car with aftermarket
> wheels. You can't get any more for the car because you spend 2000 on the
> wheels. Cars come with wheels; similarly PostgreSQL comes with a JDBC
> driver. It occurs to me that maven actually exacerbates this as you
don't
> even have to come to the site to get the driver now that you can just
add
> the dependency to your pom and it will be automagically downloaded for
you.
If you use Sonatype OSS repository to upload the binaries to Maven, then
you can query the Maven central statistics on the dashboard, see
http://blog.sonatype.com/2010/12/now-available-central-download-statistics-for-oss-projects/
Mark
