Re: [Haskell-cafe] idea: ratings (or maybe comments) for packages in hackage

Hi Omer, There is such content in the haskell wiki. For example there is something here http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Alternatives_and_extensions_for_libraries or http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Applications_and_libraries/Mathematics. Perhaps there is (or should be) category in the haskell wiki similar to http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/ -- Adam On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Charlie Paul wrote:

This has been proposed many times before, and each time everyone agrees that something like this is a good idea. However, like many good proposals, no one has put up code.

Also in this particular case, the devil is in the details. How do ratings transfer between versions? How do you account for the effects of bitrot?

On Monday, November 4, 2013, Ömer Sinan Ağacan wrote:

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Hi all,

The following is happening to me very often:

- I decide to do some work in Haskell and decide to do it using a library. - I go to hackage and search for some keywords, find 10 different packages that does similar things. - In that moment, I need to apply some heuristics to decide which package to use. When my heuristics don't end up with only one package, I go to Haskell IRC channel and ask people there to which library to use.

My heuristic is something like:

- Look if author/maintainer is well-known people in Haskell community that are already produced very high-quality libraries. - Make sure it's currently maintained(updated at least in past few months) - Make sure it has Github repository. - some other stuff like that.

These heuristics are not working great, most of the time I'm ending up with IRC channel. So my proposal is this:

Why not have a rating/comment system for packages in hackage, so that when I need to find a library for something I can just look to comments or ratings to see how complete/well-implemented or what does it good for etc. (for example, we have several high quality xml parsers, some of them are for performance while some of them aiming for being easy to use)

Any comments would be appreciated.

--- Ömer Sinan Ağacan http://osa1.net _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

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