How about instead adding a link to its online repo (at github, gitlab, bitbucket, ...)? Is there a way to add those links to the eggs index page? That would be an excellent improvement. When I look at a project's online repo, seeing recent commits, issues, available docs, number of "stars"/"watchers", changelog, etc. gives me a good idea of how the project is doing and if it'll work for me.
On Wed, Feb 21, 2018, at 3:10 PM, John Cowan wrote: > I think that would be a mistake for the reason you give: it's often > the case that an egg hasn't been updated in a long while because it's > complete and nobody has found any bugs in it. Lisp/Scheme code tends > to be extremely durable: McCarthy's theorem prover from 1958 is still > runnable with only a few surface repairs.> > On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 2:45 PM, John Gabriele > <jgabri...@fastmail.fm> wrote:>> Hi all, >> >> Haven't played around with scheme in a while, but recently was >> motivated to take a peek at what eggs were currently available. I >> noticed at the [egg index] >> (http://wiki.call-cc.org/chicken-projects/egg-index-4.html) that >> although there is much useful info provided (such as description, >> license, and egg version), there are no egg release dates listed >> --- only the egg version number.>> >> While I understand that some may be hesitant to display dates, since >> there are likely many chicken eggs that are good but also were >> released some time ago (and you may not want to give the impression >> that you've got old eggs), it makes it difficult for new users to >> get an idea of what's current/active vs possibly inactive. Date of >> the egg's release is just as important to see as its version or >> other info, and also sends a clear message that the egg index is >> more than just a showcase but is in fact *the* tool for finding and >> selecting eggs.>> >> Does the egg packaging format support a field for release date? >> >> Thanks, >> -- John >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Chicken-users mailing list >> Chicken-users@nongnu.org >> https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
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