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This is why Hackage is full of junk and Haskell is unapproachable for real-world projects. Everyone's throwaway toy file is published as a package, and the usef
by anothermachine 14y ago
This is why Hackage is full of junk and Haskell is unapproachable for real-world projects. Everyone's throwaway toy file is published as a package, and the useful well-documented packages get lost in the mix.
- tikhonj 14y agoIgnoring the baseless FUD in the first part of your post, your last point is actually valid: it is hard to find good, maintained packages on Hackage. Right now the standard solution seems to be just asking somebody with more experience, but this is clearly not scalable. Happily, a new version of Hackage creatively called Hackage2 is being worked on which should ameliorate this problem (along with some other improvements). Improvement is just around the corner.
- anothermachine 14y agoHackage2 has been around the corner for years. The "public testing instance" doesn't exist. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/wiki/HackageDB/2.0 http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/wiki/HackageDB/2.0 If someone's actually working on it again, that would be delightful.