Olaf Chitil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The latter is exactly what I do and how 99% of the information about
> tools and libraries were collected. The main page of haskell.org asks
> for information about projects, compilers, papers, classes, or anything
> else but we hardly receive any.
This is a common problem: Just putting out a website that tells people
what to do will usually not make them do it.
> This is why I am rather wary about putting much effort into any
> automatic submission and updating scheme
It sort of works for fresmeat.net, and Haskell users seem to be
fanatic :-) enough that many will in fact update the information on
their libraries while they work on them. With a scheme like this,
maintenance status can be inferred easily, just compare the following
two freshmeat entries:
The Glasgow Haskell Compiler (Development/Compilers)
A compiler for Haskell 98
created: Feb 11th 1999, 10:19
last update: July 06th 2000, 12:05
stable: 4.08 - devel: none - license: BSD type
and
Modular Game Base (Development/Game SDK)
Modular Game Development Kit
created: May 25th 1999, 08:53
last update: May 25th 1999, 16:57
stable: none - devel: 0.1 - license: GPL
It works semi-automatically: any registered user may submit changes,
but the actual modification of the data is only done after an editor
has checked their accuracy.
> I do not want to sound too negative. I am always happy about suggestions
> for improving haskell.org (especially if they do not imply too much work
> ;-).
Regard it as a system to ease your burden of keeping up to date with
library changes.
Yours, Florian.
