[Haskell-cafe] [ANN] Hayoo Relaunch

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The fact that it searches all of hackage is the primary distinction, imo.

Tom

El Aug 3, 2014, a las 15:28, Sebastian Philipp <sebastian at spawnhost.de> escribió:

> Hi Andrew,
> 
> the project goal is the same as Hoogle: to provide a search machine for
> Hackage documentations. The main reasons for using Hayoo are:
> 
> * To provide a completion for search queries
> * Get a direct link to the sources on Hackage
> * Advanced queries, like searching for packages by Author:
> <http://hayoo.fh-wedel.de/?query=Andrew+Gibiansky>
> or searching for package modules:
> <http://hayoo.fh-wedel.de/?query=package%3A%21%27ghc-parser%27%20type%3A%21module>
> * and Hayoo searches the whole Hackage.
> 
> Although, Hoogle has a better signature search.
> 
> Sebastian
> 
> 
> 
> Am 03.08.2014 um 18:33 schrieb Andrew Gibiansky:
>> Sebastian,
>> 
>> This looks great! I love the results for the example queries.
>> 
>> However, I have a few questions, which I think many people may share.
>> Namely, how is this different from Hoogle? For many of us, Hoogle is the
>> default tool, and has been thoroughly integrated into our workflow. What
>> differentiates Hayoo from Hoogle? Does it offer exactly the same service
>> but with a few different minor choices? (From a very brief glance, I prefer
>> the output I get from Hayoo, but without having used it extensively, I
>> don't know how it really compares.) I think that whatever answer you have
>> to this, it may be good to put on the "About" section of the Hayoo website.
>> 
>> (If the answer is is "it's the same but better in minor ways", that's also
>> perfectly alright. Incremental improvement is important. Not everything has
>> to be groundbreakingly different with strong differentiating points.)
>> 
>> Anyway, don't take any of these questions as criticism -- I'm a huge fan of
>> what I see here and will try to use Hayoo instead of Hoogle to see how it
>> compares in practice.
>> 
>> Best,
>> 
>> Andrew
>> 
>> 
>> On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 6:13 AM, Sebastian Philipp <sebastian at spawnhost.de>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Cafe,
>>> 
>>> Hayoo <http://hayoo.fh-wedel.de> has been relaunched. Hayoo is a search
>>> engine for Hackage packages, which allows you to search for functions,
>>> data types and packages.
>>> 
>>> It is currently work in progress. Any feedback is greatly appreciated!
>>> 
>>> Hayoo uses Hunt <https://github.com/hunt-framework> for indexing and
>>> searching, which is the successor of Holumbus. Hunt is a flexible,
>>> lightweight search platform with a powerful query language and JSON API.
>>> 
>>> Example search requests are:
>>> 
>>> * Function names: map
>>> <http://hayoo.fh-wedel.de/?query=map>
>>> 
>>> * Function signatures: (a->b)->f a->f b
>>> <http://hayoo.fh-wedel.de/?query=%28a-%3Eb%29-%3Ef+a-%3Ef+b>
>>> 
>>> * Module names: Control.Loop
>>> <http://hayoo.fh-wedel.de/?query=Control.Loop>
>>> 
>>> Have a look at the examples on <http://hayoo.fh-wedel.de/examples> for
>>> some advances queries.
>>> 
>>> The old Hayoo and Holumbus are still online at
>>> <http://holumbus-alt.fh-wedel.de/>
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Sebastian Philipp
>>> 
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> 
> 
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> Sebastian Philipp
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