On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:24 PM, hask...@kudling.de hask...@kudling.de wrote:
Nice, thank you for the great work.
Browsing the reverse dependencies of popular packages like bytestring
http://bifunctor.homelinux.net/~roel/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/revdeps/bytestring-0.9.1.5
can be improved a bit.
You should try base ;-)
1) Can you please sort the reverse dependent package names? That makes it
easier to find packages with certain names.
2) I found the columns Direct and Indirect confusing until i found out
that they show the number of reverse dependencies for those packages
themselves and are not related to direct/indirect dependencies of the
current package. I don't think it is necessary to provide those data here
and i would be in favor of reducing the information overload by leaving
those data to each package detail page.
I'll respond to 1 and 2 since they are related. Right now the packages
are sorted by their total reverse-dependency count. The idea is that
this gives an idea of the relative importance of a package (in the
closed system of the hackage packet database). However, sorting by
name makes just as much sense.
Sorting by reverse-dependency count is useful if you want to know
which are the most important reverse dependencies.
Sorting by name is useful if you want to find out if a specific
package is a reverse dependency.
Ideally I would like to support both. Maybe a bit of JavaScript could
be used to sort the table client-side.
Something like this: http://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/sorttable/
3) Can you try to print the reverse packages horizontally instead of
vertically in tables? Browsing two long tables of direct/indirect reverse
dpependencies like for bytestring makes it tedious to get an overview.
That would make sense if I wouldn't also show the reverse-dependencies
of the reverse-dependencies. But I still think that information is
usefull.
Another option would be to have the two tables side-by-side. But that
might be a bit to much for a modestly sized monitor. Again, I wonder
what could be achieved with a little JavaScript in this area.
Thank you for the constructive criticism,
Roel
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