Hi > 1. For certain tasks, there are multiple possible packages, and it's not > really clear which one to go for. Having more than one choice is good. > (E.g., there's Gtk2hs and there's wxHaskell, and you pick the one you > want based on personal preference.) Having *dozens* of different > packages for the same task, some more complete than others, some more > maintained than others, etc., is just confusing. > + points 3 and 4
This can be solved easily using blogs. If you use a package successfully, blog about it. Write about how great it was, or what was lacking. Say what problems you ran into. Perhaps write a slightly tutorialish post saying what you used it for and a snippet of code. If a few people do this, Google will do the rest with search results. > 2. Most things on Hackage don't seem to want to work on Windows. > (Evidently this is being worked on. Stream Fusion installed just fine > with a little help from Duncan...) Windows, the unloved Haskell platform... Not much you can do about this, short of breaking into peoples houses and reformatting their hard drive. I know most authors would be happy to accept a patch fixing whatever issue there is - so all it needs is more Windows users. Perhaps a wiki page listing the common mistakes a Linux user can make to render their package non-working on Windows? Thanks Neil _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
