Re: [Haskell-cafe] Package documentation complaints -- and a suggestion

Max Rabkin writes:

This is useful information, but to call it "stability" is not only misleading, but it also prevents the package from using that field to indicate whether or not it is stable!

Oh, right - I'm not much interested in the stability of a package. What I want to know, is which package to choose for some purpose. By highlighting stuff that is correlated with usefulness, I'll be able to make a quicker, more informed decision. Separating this from stability is a feature, not a bug, since it frees the author to label the package stable or not - instead of encouraging using "stable" to mean "please use". :-) -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants