Show Updates/Remove count information

[TheBenji]

Probably a though one but it would be nice if we could have in the "more" tab information how many of those Downloads are actual new Downloads and how many are updates from the last version.

And additional how many removed the extension again.

[dnbard]

Hi! Such information cannot be received from Brackets registry at the moment.
I may include some statistics analyze in the future, but still it will not show 100% correct information on this topic.

[dnbard]

Hi. I have an idea on how we can acquire such information. But I will need some time to implement it and you will need to place my code (separate module) inside of your extension.

[TheBenji]

Hm yeah, but if you need to place the code in the extension it should be separate from the extension-rating and rather be some tracking tool which offers other possibilities too (error tracking for example) and the enduser should have the possibility to disable this. Basically like you know it from other desktop software. However, not sure that's worth the effort.

What do you think?

[dnbard]

it should be separate from the extension-rating

Yes it is going to be an separate service. But extension-rating can show results of it's work for everyone.

tracking tool which offers other possibilities too (error tracking for example) 

It's a good idea, but i think that such other possibilities should be a separated from Installation Tracking Service too ;) They may have one web front-end to manage all things, but they should be separate in terms of web workers.

enduser should have the possibility to disable this

I agree. But i think that UI for this functionality should create an extension author.

However, not sure that's worth the effort.

I'm not quite sure is this functionality(to show number of new installs and number of updates) is needed. Maybe I'll create a service to acquire such information in near future and test it with my extensions, then give an ability to use it to anyone. I'll update my progress here.

[TheBenji]

Just saw there is a discussion about this in the brackets dev group already.
Not in particular for extensions but to collect data: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/brackets-dev/IndE12BY2Ss

Maybe it's worth waiting for this and see weather or not extensions can use that...

[dnbard]

Thanks!
I think that they talking about slightly different things. However, I don't going to start to implement Tracking Service right now and definitely going to monitor that discussion and Brackets backlog for useful information.