Re: [Haskell-cafe] Subcategories on Hackage

Am 04.06.2011 11:08, schrieb Vo Minh Thu:

2011/6/4 Tillmann Vogt:

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Hi,

There are some categories on Hackage that have become so large that it is hard to find something, i.e. Data(414 packages) and Graphics (191). Thats why I suggest to use subcategories separated from the category with a dot. To show that this makes sense I made subcategories for graphics libraries at the end of this email. Whatever happens to hackage2 this would be an immediate improvement.

How ------ I would volunteer for the manual categorization and let the community look over it. I could upload the changes with a script but the version number has to increase even if only the category has changed. I also don't want to be responsible for a massive spike in the upload statistics. Shouldn't the cabal file be excluded from the versioning policy? => It is allowed to upload a library with the same version number if only the cabal file has changed. One should write a notifiaction mail to all owners to reply if they don't agree. Then after a week executing the script that applies the changes.

[snip] Hi,

I would simply prefer tags.

Actually, there is a problem that becomes even worse in your proposal: packages appearing in multiple categories, and packages not appearing in some expected category.

Well, what is the difference between a tag and a category? The second sounds more mathematical. A sub tag or a sub category is better because some categories have clearly a "sub" relation. I.e. I cannot imagine 2d-image-formats to be part of some other category than graphics. But generally I agree that more tags are also a solution, but how to display this without increasing the page size. So I think in the end it is tradeoff between display size and reasonable narrowing of where a category can belong.

A simple example in your proposed categories: HDRUtils library: should it be in 2d, RasterFormats, or maybe in 2dFormats, ... with tags, 2d, raster, format, can be used, but also hdr, image, etc.

I don't mean that a library should appear in only one (sub-)category, HDRUtils may appear in all the categories you mention. but if someone wants to know what raster image formats are supported he immediately finds it ind RasterFormats.

I don't remember what was proposed for hackage 2.

Cheers, Thu