[Haskell-beginners] Haskell package maturity

[David McBride]

Ultimately when browsing hackage, there are a few things on a package that
stop people from using them.  Louis Wasserman, no idea who that is.  Last
updated in Aptirl 2009, boy that's a long time ago.  No link to his
repository, no link to documentation or a website.

This could be a great library, a real diamond in the rough, but there is no
shortage of alternative data structure libraries on hackage that have been
tried and tested.

On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Andrew Bernard <andrew.bernard at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Since starting to look on Hackage for packages for such vital things as
> queues and algorithms, I am surprised to see very low numbers of downloads
> for packages that seem to me to be vitally important. For example,
> queuelike has only been downloaded 1617 times since being uploaded in 2009.
> Similar very low numbers seem to apply for many packages. Another example
> is cubicspline with only 485 downloads.
>
> My question is, are the numbers on Hackage correct, and if so, do they
> indicate hardly anybody uses them, or indeed Haskell? I am starting to
> wonder.
>
> I also notice version numbers are very low, often less than one and most
> often around 0.1 or so. This is either a display of extreme modesty on the
> part of Haskell library code developers (in fact, often found in open
> source communities), or an indication of lack of maturity of the code.
> Overall I am puzzled about this. I am trying to establish what packages to
> use in my coding and there seems to be little indication of what to choose,
> and how to assess code maturity. What am I missing?
>
> Andrew
>
>
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