Hi Zach,
> > But I agree that library quality / support are important parts of > > library discovery: if you don't know which ones are generally thought > > of as good, or which ones have an active support network, how can you > > ever choose between them? Solving the library discovery problem is > > probably rather people-intensive, which I imagine is why nobody's done > > it. I'm told other languages suffer from this too. > > I think quickdocs.org helps. I would also like to see some mechanism for > incorporating user feedback (e.g. "I tried this library on LispWorks and > it keeps crashing" or "The documentation doesn't match the code any > more" or "This is great, it solved my problem and it's really fast") and > rating. Building such a thing would take a generous expenditure of time > and effort, so I understand why it hasn't popped into existence already. Do you also see a role for cl-test-grid here, which tests quicklisp packaged libraries on a large number of platforms and may thus provide potential users with the insights they need for their platforms? Bye, Erik.
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