[Haskell] ANN: Portackage - a hackage portal

[Andrew Seniuk]

Somewhat lighter, using summarised module lists. A more sophistocated
UI with per-column filtering is in the works. I invite your comments.

Andrew

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Andrew Seniuk <rasfar at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This is to announce a provisional webpage to summarise hackage.haskell.org.
>
> http://www.fremissant.net/portackage
>
> It is a lot of data, so will be a bit slow to load. Columns can be
> sorted by clicking the headers, but this will also take some seconds
> on a typical client. The initial sort is by module name.  Clicking a
> table row links to the project page on hackage.
>
> Although I believe this is a complete list of all packages/modules in
> hackage, it is probably still buggy, so if you see anything amiss
> please let me know. Also, a subsequent version in the near future will
> update automatically based on the
> http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/recent.rss RSS feed, but
> for now it's based on a recent snapshot. Haskell code which prepares
> the page will be released after a few more days testing and
> refinement.
>
> Some previous work [1] provided a list of all modules, but is not
> being maintained, and I was unable to rearouse the author's interest.
>
> Feature requests and suggestions are welcome!
>
> Kind Reg'ds,
> Andrew Seniuk
>
> [1] http://folk.ntnu.no/hammar/explore-hackage/