Don wrote
I see fairly regular complaints about too many Haskell libraries, bewildering choice of difficult-to-determine quality.
I've tried to summarize the state of Hackage, and what projects are active to make it easier to find high quality libraries:
Thoughts?
the Hayoo! group is currently extending the search engine, such that it becomes possible, to not only search types and functions, but also search the package descriptions. Building a search index for the cabal package description is already implemented. At the moment the Hayoo! search interface is is the missing part. Technically it's not a difficult extension, but currently we don't have very much spare time. For ranking the results for a package search, a download statistic could be very useful and could easily be integrated. If such a statistic would be available in machine readable format (csv, xml, plain text, ...), we could integrate that. Chees, Uwe P.S.: Sorry for Hayoo! beeing down at the moment. There was a power breakdown at FH Wedel yesterday, and that destroyed the RAID controller of the server running Hayoo!