Hi, I want to ask a question about hackage which contains additional libraries to Haskell. Is there a mechanism that will help developer to choose a library among the others? I mean, there are several packages that may do the same thing in hackage and to choose one among the others, developer may want to have more information about the library such as other developers' ratings and comments, activity of development of the library, etc so that one can choose the better alternative. Is there a mechanism for that or is there a plan to add these to the hackage? Thanks
Hi There have been plans to add rankings to Hackage and a GSOC looked into adding them. Roel van Dijk built reverse dependencies for Hackage which illustrated the most popular libraries, unfortunately the link seems broken: http://bifunctor.homelinux.net/~roel/hackage/packages/hackage.html Of course, the best library for "you" is the one that does more of want you need in a way that you like the most. Social proof might not always help for this... Best regards Stephen
Hi, Am Dienstag, den 20.09.2011, 22:07 +0100 schrieb Stephen Tetley:
There have been plans to add rankings to Hackage and a GSOC looked into adding them.
Roel van Dijk built reverse dependencies for Hackage which illustrated the most popular libraries, unfortunately the link seems broken:
http://bifunctor.homelinux.net/~roel/hackage/packages/hackage.html
If you just need to look up the reverse dependencies (which is important, e.g., for distribution packagers before upgrading a library), there is also http://packdeps.haskellers.com/reverse Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner mail@joachim-breitner.de | nomeata@debian.org | GPG: 0x4743206C xmpp: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://www.joachim-breitner.de/
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Joachim Breitner
Hi,
Am Dienstag, den 20.09.2011, 22:07 +0100 schrieb Stephen Tetley:
There have been plans to add rankings to Hackage and a GSOC looked into adding them.
Roel van Dijk built reverse dependencies for Hackage which illustrated the most popular libraries, unfortunately the link seems broken:
http://bifunctor.homelinux.net/~roel/hackage/packages/hackage.html
If you just need to look up the reverse dependencies (which is important, e.g., for distribution packagers before upgrading a library), there is also http://packdeps.haskellers.com/reverse
That's useful. Is there a way to see which packages do the depending?
Greetings, Joachim
-- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner mail@joachim-breitner.de | nomeata@debian.org | GPG: 0x4743206C xmpp: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://www.joachim-breitner.de/
_______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Unfortunately the bifunctor.homelinux.net domain stopped working. The reverse dependencies can now be found at: http://revdeps.hackage.haskell.org/ The reverse dependency algorithm needs some love. Some packages have -1 reverse dependencies, which is somewhat strange.
On 20 September 2011 23:07, Stephen Tetley
Roel van Dijk built reverse dependencies for Hackage which illustrated the most popular libraries, unfortunately the link seems broken:
http://bifunctor.homelinux.net/~roel/hackage/packages/hackage.html
The new URL is: http://revdeps.hackage.haskell.org We still have to announce it officially. However we would like to fix some minor bugs first. Regards, Bas
participants (6)
-
Bas van Dijk -
Issac Trotts -
Joachim Breitner -
kioto mitsubisi -
Roel van Dijk -
Stephen Tetley