I do think it's a real problem even for seasoned haskellers. I don't have
problems in remembering which packages I should use for the things I've
already used before recently, but I need to search Hackage just as everyone
else as soon as I need to do something new.
I also agree that this is more of a social problem not a tooling one.
Hackage would just provide a tool for helping this kind of social
interaction.
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Carter Schonwald wrote: is that really a problem though? Who's problem are we trying to solve? Is this being proposed to help
seasoned haskellers, or make getting started easier for new folks? those are two VERY different problems. Also many of the maintainers for
heavily used packages are incredibly busy as is, do they need to keep track
of even *more* email? I'd hope not. In some respects, just having the hackage2 deps and revdeps stats is a
good proxy for how likely a package is to be well maintained. On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Niklas Hambüchen Well, that's what the "once every 3 months" is good for. On Mon 06 May 2013 20:34:13 SGT, Tobias Dammers wrote: The problem is that people tend to (truthfully) check such a box, then
stop maintaining the package for whatever reasons, and never bother
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