June 2010 - Libraries

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The state of Hackage: what are we doing about it?
by Bas van Dijk 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Uwe Schmidt <si(a)fh-wedel.de> wrote: > For ranking the results for a package search, a download statistic could be > very useful and could easily be integrated. If such a statistic would be > available in machine readable format (csv, xml, plain text, ...), we could > integrate that. Ordering by nr of direct/indirect reverse dependencies might also be useful. We could add a .csv file version of the main reverse dependency page which you can index easily: http://bifunctor.homelinux.net/~roel/hackage/packages/archive/revdeps-list.… We should probably compress the .csv file to reduce some network bandwidth. Although that's not really a problem for us because we're on a high bandwidth link. Note that .csv files are already provided for individual packages. Here's the one for the latest network for example: http://bifunctor.homelinux.net/~roel/hackage/packages/archive/network/2.2.1… Format: package name-version, nr of direct rev. deps., nr of indirect rev. deps., 'D' for Direct rev. dep. and 'I' for Indirect rev. dep.. Regards, Bas

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Re: Remaining problems with the Batteries Included page
by Yitzchak Gale 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

On http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/contents.html, only one click away from "Get the Haskell Platform". - "optimzing" ? - no link for deepseq Thanks, Yitz

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Re: proposal #4095: add Applicative instance for Either
by Ross Paterson 01 Jun '10

01 Jun '10

Ashley Yakeley <ashley(a)semantic.org> writes: > I currently have my own implementations for these: > instance Foldable Identity > instance Traversable Identity > instance Applicative Identity The transformers package has such instances (but currently for a different Identity type). > instance Foldable (Either p) > instance Traversable (Either p) > instance Applicative (Either p) > instance Foldable ((,) p) > instance Traversable ((,) p) The Applicative one is proposed here. The others should also be added.

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The state of Hackage: what are we doing about it?
by Don Stewart 01 Jun '10

01 Jun '10

I see fairly regular complaints about too many Haskell libraries, bewildering choice of difficult-to-determine quality. I've tried to summarize the state of Hackage, and what projects are active to make it easier to find high quality libraries: http://tinyurl.com/2cqw9sb Thoughts? -- Don

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