[Haskell-cafe] expanded standard lib

[Mads Lindstrøm]

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> On Nov 19, 2007, at 15:13 , Neil Mitchell wrote:
> 
> >> - The packages seem to be of quite variable quality. Some are  
> >> excellent,
> >> some are rather poor (or just not maintained any more).
> >
> > The problem is that only one person gets to comment on the quality of
> > a library, the author, who is about the least objective person.
> 
> The ability to "vote" on packages might be interesting here.  If  
> there's 4 HTML libraries and one of them gets lots of votes, it's  
> probably the one to look at first.
> 

It occurred to me that the voting could be implicit. That is, if 10
libraries/programs use library X, then library X gets 10 votes. Kind of
like Google PageRank for libraries.


Greetings,

Mads Lindstrøm