hscurses under wrong category

[Bas van Dijk-2]

Hello,

I noticed that the hscurses package[1] is listed under category
"User-interface" while all other user interface packages are listed
under "User Interfaces".

Could someone please release hscurses under the "User Interfaces"
category and remove the current one? That will make it more
consistent.

Thanks

Bas

[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/hscurses
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[Don Stewart-2]

v.dijk.bas:

> Hello,
>
> I noticed that the hscurses package[1] is listed under category
> "User-interface" while all other user interface packages are listed
> under "User Interfaces".
>
> Could someone please release hscurses under the "User Interfaces"
> category and remove the current one? That will make it more
> consistent.
>
> Thanks

In general we need a way for trusted users to tag and categorise
packages. Restricting uploaded categories would also help in the
ontology sprawl.
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[Henning Thielemann]

On Thu, 3 Jul 2008, Don Stewart wrote:

> v.dijk.bas:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I noticed that the hscurses package[1] is listed under category
>> "User-interface" while all other user interface packages are listed
>> under "User Interfaces".
>>
>> Could someone please release hscurses under the "User Interfaces"
>> category and remove the current one? That will make it more
>> consistent.
>
> In general we need a way for trusted users to tag and categorise
> packages. Restricting uploaded categories would also help in the
> ontology sprawl.

I suggested that introduction of new categories should not be restricted,
but at least a warning and a question should be raised if you introduce a
new category, because it may only be the difference between "User
Interface" and "User-Interface". The downside is, that introducing new
categories in order to place "unique" packages is too tempting.
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[Duncan Coutts]

On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 21:12 +0200, Henning Thielemann wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Jul 2008, Don Stewart wrote:
>
> > v.dijk.bas:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I noticed that the hscurses package[1] is listed under category
> >> "User-interface" while all other user interface packages are listed
> >> under "User Interfaces".
> >>
> >> Could someone please release hscurses under the "User Interfaces"
> >> category and remove the current one? That will make it more
> >> consistent.
> >
> > In general we need a way for trusted users to tag and categorise
> > packages. Restricting uploaded categories would also help in the
> > ontology sprawl.
>
> I suggested that introduction of new categories should not be restricted,
> but at least a warning and a question should be raised if you introduce a
> new category, because it may only be the difference between "User
> Interface" and "User-Interface". The downside is, that introducing new
> categories in order to place "unique" packages is too tempting.

It is indeed already a warning.

Duncan

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[Ross Paterson]

On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 01:04:11AM +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 21:12 +0200, Henning Thielemann wrote:
> > I suggested that introduction of new categories should not be restricted,
> > but at least a warning and a question should be raised if you introduce a
> > new category, because it may only be the difference between "User
> > Interface" and "User-Interface". The downside is, that introducing new
> > categories in order to place "unique" packages is too tempting.
>
> It is indeed already a warning.

New top-level module hierarchies get a warning at the moment, but not
new categories.
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[Gwern Branwen]

On 2008.07.03 20:56:19 +0200, Bas van Dijk <v.dijk.bas@...> scribbled 0.4K characters:

> Hello,
>
> I noticed that the hscurses package[1] is listed under category
> "User-interface" while all other user interface packages are listed
> under "User Interfaces".
>
> Could someone please release hscurses under the "User Interfaces"
> category and remove the current one? That will make it more
> consistent.
>
> Thanks
>
> Bas
>
> [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/hscurses

Yes, I noticed that a while ago and fixed it in darcs Hscurses, but there haven't been any other changes to justify a reupload. If this really bothers you, I suppose I could increment the version number and upload; or perhaps a Hackage admin could delete so as to permit a reupload under the same version number.

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