[Haskell-cafe] Working out which library to use (was: Haskell and DB)

[Neil Mitchell]

Hi

> We have the start on a solution for how to pick "the good ones".
>
> We'll consider which binary IO library is most popular, from:
> The search engine returns the results:
>
>     * binary, is used by 12 other packages:

This only works with libraries that are lower-level, like binary,
which other libraries are likely to use. For libraries such as
HTML/XML parsing, its likely that the majority of users are
applications, which are under-represented on hackage. I don't know
what safecopy does, but I'm guessing its a wrapper around binary
providing some functionality, so it follows that more people probably
use the lower-level library than safecopy.

Thanks

Neil