[Haskell] ALife category

[Ertugrul Söylemez]

Amy de Buitléir <amy at nualeargais.ie> wrote:

> I'm developing a framework for artificial life experiments that I
> would like to make available on Hackage eventually. I've read all the
> guidance and proposals I could find for where to place packages in the
> hierarchy:
>
> http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Hierarchical_module_names
> http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/libraries/layout.html
> http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/libraries/layoutSM.html
>
> I've also examined the current hierarchy of modules:
>
> http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/pkg-list.html
>
> The current hierarchy has a top-level AI category, so it would seem
> logical to me to add a top-level ALife category and put my package
> under that. But perhaps it would be best not to start a new top-level
> category? I could put my package under AI, because my framework does
> support the use of AI, and wouldn't look too out of place with the
> other packages there.

Unless you expect to upload a large number of related packages with
various names, I wouldn't start a new category.  Note, if your package
supports multiple types of application, you can also specify multiple
categories:

    Category: Network, Web


Greets,
Ertgrul

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