On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Serguey Zefirov
The solution... I think that some ratings, like "used directly by ### packages/projects and indirectly by ###" would be nice, but not much.
As for me, I like the diversity of packages. They attack close problems from different fronts. They express different ideas and views. I like all that.
Regarding the Unicode problem, there is a standard solution today: use the text package. Yes, you may use other libraries, but text is the recommended one. The problem is that no one coming to Hackage discovers that on Hackage itself. You have to dig the Internet to find some blog post telling you what to do. And hope that the blog post isn't old. So we really need a way of raking libraries in Hackage. We already have the Haskell Platform, which is really really nice, but the HP can't embrace everything. For everything outside HP, a ranking system is needed. Cheers! =) -- Felipe.