Maybe it is from spending too much time with java, but I tend to name those kind of libs `util`, because often what they are is adding extra functionality to the standard library.
In order for it to be really useful, though, I think that its role needs to be clearly defined (as below), and that definition adhered to. I really like the haskell package idea, but only if there is a lighter-weight default as well. > > It's not for experimental stuff. Let me clarify the role we're > discussing. The "ext" library, for lack of a better name, will: > > - Be a library hosted in a mozilla and/or rust-lang.org > (http://rust-lang.org) repo > - That _just re-exports_ (pub extern mod's) a bunch of packages > - Each of which is: > - Developed independently in their own repos > - By their own contributor communities > - At their own pace > - Applying some editorial standards to the selected packages > - And supporting them version-to-version even if they bitrot > or radically change upstream >
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