SL Baur <steve(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: Do you really think that this in any way reflects number of users? I would say that it has almost no connection to number of users per platform. The Linux community has moved very strongly into a Windows-like use model of software installation. Each user tends to download a binary package for their own machine (RPM, debian pkg, XEmacs binary kit, etc) and run it locally. Users of many other Unices tend to follow the more traditional (within UNIX) model. One tarball of source is downloaded and built just how it ought to be used in that site's environment, then the resulting binaries are used by a great deal of people. Measuring the number of binary kits downloaded is useless as a measure of the distrubution of XEmacs users by platform. I certainly hope that it continues to be very important. I find messages such as this one to be very strange and disheartening. -- Justin Sheehy In a cloud bones of steel.