Subcategories in Hackage
Hi, all! Now, with the approaching new Hackage server, I thought that to organize packages into subcategories would be useful. Categories like "System" or "Text", with almost 200 packages, make more difficult to find what you want. "Data" category has currently 326 packages, many of them with very different roles. Perhaps, this is madness, but I wanted to read other opinions on this topic. -- Daniel Díaz
Perhaps, this is madness, but I wanted to read other opinions on this topic.
Packages already have multiple tags, right? So how about a search box that uses ANDed tags (in addition to description etc), and a browsing interface where you can see tags of packages matching the current search, and click on one to AND it into the search? That might be easier than trying to fit everything into one hierarchy. Some packages can go in more than one place.
On 13 September 2010 11:37, Evan Laforge
Perhaps, this is madness, but I wanted to read other opinions on this topic.
Packages already have multiple tags, right? So how about a search box that uses ANDed tags (in addition to description etc), and a browsing interface where you can see tags of packages matching the current search, and click on one to AND it into the search?
That might be easier than trying to fit everything into one hierarchy. Some packages can go in more than one place.
Perhaps a better statement of what each tag actually represents so that people can better choose which tags fit their package. -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com
El Lun, 13 de Septiembre de 2010, 3:37 am, Evan Laforge escribió:
That might be easier than trying to fit everything into one hierarchy. Some packages can go in more than one place.
I have not contradicted that. A package can go somewhere. For example: CAT. A * SUBCAT. A1 ** Pack. 1 * SUBCAT. A2 ** Pack. 2 ** Pack. 3 CAT. B * SUBCAT. B1 ** Pack. 4 ** Pack. 3 * SUBCAT. B2 ** Pack. 1 ** Pack. 5 Thanks for the opinion. -- Daniel Díaz
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