Isaac Jones wrote:
I added some ideas about searching / querying the package database.
One idea is that I really like the way trac does querying and group-by. Once you build a query, you can also get an RSS feed based on that query. It would be pretty easy, I'd guess, to have Hackage output RSS as well as html.
Yes, nice idea.
I think that, as far as Hackage (not cabal-install) is concerned, the main usibility points are:
1) getting more packages into it 2) making sure that all the packages build together, and 3) searching
Ah yes, there was the idea of freezing a collection of packages that build together too.
By the way, I really like the idea of tags instead of categories. Although categories are simpler to understand and obvious, so perhaps we should have a facet that's "PrimaryCategory" (or leaving the category field alone and adding tags). There is something to be said for picking a "smart" default view for end-users, rather than giving them too many choices. This view is quite nice: http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/pkg-list.html
I think tagging is premature, just having categories with the ability to put a package into multiple categories will be just fine for now, IMO. See my message yesterday on libraries@. Cheers, Simon