Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Too many packages on hackage? :-)

2007-07-09 Thread Ketil Malde
On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 10:30 +1000, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote: Another idea I've been pondering is allowing people to add links to documentation for libraries My main worry about Hackage is that it is often hard to tell the current status of packages - it could easily develop into a huge list

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Too many packages on hackage? :-)

2007-07-09 Thread Donald Bruce Stewart
ketil: On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 10:30 +1000, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote: Another idea I've been pondering is allowing people to add links to documentation for libraries My main worry about Hackage is that it is often hard to tell the current status of packages - it could easily develop

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Too many packages on hackage? :-)

2007-07-09 Thread Thomas Conway
On 7/9/07, Ketil Malde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The current deliverables seem to consist of a tar file and a package description, neither of them accurately dated. Clearly we need to store them in a treap. :-) -- Dr Thomas Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Too many packages on hackage? :-)

2007-07-09 Thread Sascha Böhme
Hello, Who's our SoC hackage guy? To do list right here! The HackageDB project is for now concentrating on another subject. I see the necessity of adding search features and additionally tags, but in the moment I work on automatic generation of Haddock documentation. The progress and a to do

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Too many packages on hackage? :-)

2007-07-09 Thread Philip Armstrong
On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 06:05:44PM +0200, Marc Weber wrote: Another idea I've been pondering is allowing people to add links to documentation for libraries, from their hackage page. We have a fair few libs documented in blog form, here, Beeing able adding some comments (wiki style) would be

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Too many packages on hackage? :-)

2007-07-09 Thread Donald Bruce Stewart
sascha.boehme: Hello, Who's our SoC hackage guy? To do list right here! The HackageDB project is for now concentrating on another subject. I see the necessity of adding search features and additionally tags, but in the moment I work on automatic generation of Haddock documentation.

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Too many packages on hackage? :-)

2007-07-08 Thread apfelmus
Conrad Parker wrote: On 08/07/07, Neil Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Looks like there's too many packages on hackage.haskell.org now for a single page listing: http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/pkg-list.html Perhaps we can have a page with just the categories,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Too many packages on hackage? :-)

2007-07-08 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello apfelmus, Sunday, July 8, 2007, 5:20:18 PM, you wrote: Looks like there's too many packages on hackage.haskell.org now for a it's the nicest problem i can imagine :) For browsing libraries, I like the wiki pages much more than hackage. Can't those two be merged into one? may be we

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Too many packages on hackage? :-)

2007-07-08 Thread Donald Bruce Stewart
bulat.ziganshin: Hello apfelmus, Sunday, July 8, 2007, 5:20:18 PM, you wrote: Looks like there's too many packages on hackage.haskell.org now for a it's the nicest problem i can imagine :) For browsing libraries, I like the wiki pages much more than hackage. Can't those two be