2011/6/4 Tillmann Vogt <tillmann.v...@rwth-aachen.de>: > Hi, > > There are some categories on Hackage that have become so large that it is > hard to find something, i.e. Data(414 packages) and Graphics (191). Thats > why I suggest to use subcategories separated from the category with a dot. > To show that this makes sense I made subcategories for graphics libraries at > the end of this email. > Whatever happens to hackage2 this would be an immediate improvement. > > How > ------ > I would volunteer for the manual categorization and let the community look > over it. > I could upload the changes with a script but the version number has to > increase even if only the category has changed. I also don't want to be > responsible for a massive spike in the upload statistics. > Shouldn't the cabal file be excluded from the versioning policy? => It is > allowed to upload a library with the same version number if only the cabal > file has changed. One should write a notifiaction mail to all owners to > reply if they don't agree. Then after a week executing the script that > applies the changes. > > [snip]
Hi, I would simply prefer tags. Actually, there is a problem that becomes even worse in your proposal: packages appearing in multiple categories, and packages not appearing in some expected category. A simple example in your proposed categories: HDRUtils library: should it be in 2d, RasterFormats, or maybe in 2dFormats, ... with tags, 2d, raster, format, can be used, but also hdr, image, etc. I don't remember what was proposed for hackage 2. Cheers, Thu _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe