Why not hierarchical tags? (Tags organized in directories, well, basically, tags with slashes or dots) This is the most flexible IMHO.
2011/6/4 Vo Minh Thu <not...@gmail.com> > 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 >
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