On Nov 19, 2007, at 17:01 , Mads Lindstrøm wrote:
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
The ability to "vote" on packages might be interesting here. If there's 4 HTML libraries and one of them gets lots of votes, it's probably the one to look at first.
It occurred to me that the voting could be implicit. That is, if 10 libraries/programs use library X, then library X gets 10 votes. Kind of like Google PageRank for libraries.
Only up to a point; not all programs written using such libraries are necessarily going to end up on hackage. (Consider the code written by the financials folks that have been mentioned here various times; and I have a couple programs which would be quite useless outside of CMU ECE because they operate on parts of our site-specific infrastructure.) It would certainly be a start, though. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH