Am 04.06.2011 11:08, schrieb Vo Minh Thu:
2011/6/4 Tillmann Vogt<[email protected]>:
Hi,
There are some categories on Hackage that have become so large that it is
hard to find something, i.e. Data(414 packages) and Graphics (191). Thats
why I suggest to use subcategories separated from the category with a dot.
To show that this makes sense I made subcategories for graphics libraries at
the end of this email.
Whatever happens to hackage2 this would be an immediate improvement.
How
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I would volunteer for the manual categorization and let the community look
over it.
I could upload the changes with a script but the version number has to
increase even if only the category has changed. I also don't want to be
responsible for a massive spike in the upload statistics.
Shouldn't the cabal file be excluded from the versioning policy? => It is
allowed to upload a library with the same version number if only the cabal
file has changed. One should write a notifiaction mail to all owners to
reply if they don't agree. Then after a week executing the script that
applies the changes.
[snip]
Hi,
I would simply prefer tags.
Actually, there is a problem that becomes even worse in your proposal:
packages appearing in multiple categories, and packages not appearing
in some expected category.
Well, what is the difference between a tag and a category? The second
sounds more mathematical.
A sub tag or a sub category is better because some categories have
clearly a "sub" relation. I.e. I cannot imagine 2d-image-formats to be
part of some other category than graphics. But generally I agree that
more tags are also a solution, but how to display this without
increasing the page size. So I think in the end it is tradeoff between
display size and reasonable narrowing of where a category can belong.
A simple example in your proposed categories: HDRUtils library: should
it be in 2d, RasterFormats, or maybe in 2dFormats, ... with tags, 2d,
raster, format, can be used, but also hdr, image, etc.
I don't mean that a library should appear in only one (sub-)category,
HDRUtils may appear in all the categories you mention. but if someone
wants to know what raster image formats are supported he immediately
finds it ind RasterFormats.
I don't remember what was proposed for hackage 2.
Cheers,
Thu
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