Re: Haskell Libraries Wishlist

On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 06:36, John Goerzen wrote:

On 2004-10-12, Shae Matijs Erisson wrote:

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John Goerzen writes: Thank you for the numerous helpful suggestions. I will be chasing them down.

Many (all?) of them were not listed at http://www.haskell.org/libraries/, which is what I was using. Would it be possible to list more of these on that site?

One problem with that web site is that any update requires the manual intervention of a maintainer. (This is not to be seen as a critique of the maintainers. They do a good job. It is just that setups like that always tend to lag.) How can this be solved? Somebody could sit down and build a system that supports author submission that get automatically processed etc. AFAIK that has been proposed before and nothing happened. So, I wonder why not reuse a resource that already exists, namely http://freshmeat.net/ Freshmeat already has a Haskell category, http://freshmeat.net/browse/834/ which provides an easy way to get all Haskell software out of the database and could be linked from haskell.org. Freshmeat entries need not necessarily be created and updated by the authors of some software. Instead, interested users can maintain a freshmeat entry. This facility seems to improve the accuracy of the freshmeat db. Cheers, Manuel