On Sat, Jul 1, 2023 at 11:01 PM Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Would you know that even if they were on some official curated list? > Projects get abandoned at any time, and unless the curators are > constantly checking every package for currency, it's no different - > except that people will expect it to be different. > It's quite different -- because at least the package was useful at SOME point. But yes, maintenance would be required - back to the "it would take a lot of work" problem -- I"m not pretending that that's not the case. However, the amount of time the two of us have spent on this thread could have been used to review the status of quite a few packages :-) > Indeed. But I expect it'd be easier to get one person to write one > blog post about their favourite packages than to create some sort of > comprehensive list of everything that's good :) > of course it would, but then you'd only know about a few packages -- not a great comparison. However, that's why I like the idea of a centralized package review site -- then you get that one person to write one review of the PCRE packages and post a PR. Then a couple hundred such people and you've got something! But critical mass would be hard to get. -CHB -- Christopher Barker, PhD (Chris) Python Language Consulting - Teaching - Scientific Software Development - Desktop GUI and Web Development - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython
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