Re: [Haskell-cafe] Working out which library to use (was: Haskell and DB)

Hi

We have the start on a solution for how to pick "the good ones".

We'll consider which binary IO library is most popular, from: The search engine returns the results:

* binary, is used by 12 other packages:

This only works with libraries that are lower-level, like binary, which other libraries are likely to use. For libraries such as HTML/XML parsing, its likely that the majority of users are applications, which are under-represented on hackage. I don't know what safecopy does, but I'm guessing its a wrapper around binary providing some functionality, so it follows that more people probably use the lower-level library than safecopy. Thanks Neil