si: > Don wrote > > > 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? > > the Hayoo! group is currently extending the search engine, such that it > becomes possible, to not only search types and functions, but also search the > package descriptions. Building a search index for the cabal package > description is already implemented. At the moment the Hayoo! search interface > is is the missing part. Technically it's not a difficult extension, but > currently we don't have very much spare time. > > 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. >
I've been posting CSV files of the download statistics here: http://www.galois.com/~dons/hackage/hackage-downloads.csv The next quarter's aggregated downloads are due soon. The Arch Haskell site uses these stats to compute some popularity metrics: http://www.galois.com/~dons/arch-haskell-status.html -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
