HackageDB - How to browse by development status
Hi I really miss the option browsing this big DB by development status (.e.g. alpha,beta,stable,mature,inactive) It is very common (in other langs at least) to have some approx development status. Otherwise it is really hard to choose. How can I know if a package is considered stable enough for production ? -- Regards, Gabi http://bugspy.net
Hi Gabi Unfortunately 'stability' is only an optional field in cabal files, so some projects will display it but others don't. Roel van Dijk has a nice project that allows you to see reverse dependencies for packages in HackageDB and this gives you a popularity rank. As a rule of thumb, a package won't be very popular if it is unstable... http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2009-October/067765.html http://bifunctor.homelinux.net/~roel/hackage/packages/hackage.html http://bifunctor.homelinux.net/~roel/hackage/packages/archive/revdeps-list.h... You can judge inactivity by last release, but some great packages 'just work' so don't need updating. Best wishes Stephen
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