[Haskell-cafe] Package descriptions on hackage

Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com
Tue Sep 6 00:22:49 CEST 2011


On 5 September 2011 23:59, Joachim Breitner <mail at joachim-breitner.de> wrote:
> Dear hackage package authors,
>
> this is a short message from your distribution package creators: Please,
> if possible, write good, not too short descriptions, and also keep them
> up to date. Of course, users browsing hackage will benefit as well.

Also for potential users trying to work out what your library does!

Something that I find particularly frustrating is all the libraries of
the form "hFoo: Haskell bindings to the Foo library"; well, what _is_
the Foo library?

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Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
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