Hi
I think there is a niche for a subset of the hackage libraries providing an officially sanctioned standard library collection. Currently, hackage includes, well, everything. As such, it is a useful resource, but it would be useful to have a partitioning into two levels, where the "SLC" would only include libraries that meet specific criteria. Maybe:
- considered stable - is portable - relies only on other standard libraries - avoids needless duplication of functionality - with a responsive, named maintainer (not libraries@) - with acceptable documentation and unit tests - required by at least one separate application
I think there is a niche for this, but I don't think it should be an officially sanctioned collection - since otherwise everyone is just going to be debating how to add their library to this collection - and we are going to descend into voting and politics. Instead, I think several people should make their own personal list of "libraries they would vouch for" - which meet the criteria above AND they have personal positive experiences of. Off the top of my head my list would include gtk2hs, and that's about it. Thanks Neil