On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Ross Paterson
Lets look at it another way, since the libraries maintained by libraries@ have a stricter process for API changes, they ought to have a better API than the ones that are maintained outside the process, right? At least in my opinion, the best libraries are all outside the libraries@ process: bytestring, binary, text, etc.
Don't you think the fact that these libraries are older, and their old interfaces have lots of users, might be a factor?
Perhaps, but I'm honestly not sure what effect exactly: binary and bytestring are popular than many of the older libraries. I also find it interesting that although many of the libraries@ packages are older, the packages I mentioned are more mature (more well designed APIs, more tests, more consistent code base, etc). Johan