[Haskell-beginners] HackageDB - How to browse by development status

[Stephen Tetley]

Hi Gabi

Unfortunately 'stability' is only an optional field in cabal files, so
some projects will display it but others don't.

Roel van Dijk has a nice project that allows you to see reverse
dependencies for packages in HackageDB and this gives you a popularity
rank. As a rule of thumb, a package won't be very popular if it is
unstable...


http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2009-October/067765.html
http://bifunctor.homelinux.net/~roel/hackage/packages/hackage.html
http://bifunctor.homelinux.net/~roel/hackage/packages/archive/revdeps-list.html

You can judge inactivity by last release, but some great packages
'just work' so don't need updating.

Best wishes

Stephen