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Libraries.io – Open-Source Discovery Service

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More details on how it works in this blog post: https://medium.com/@teabass/solving-open-source-discovery-db...

Browsing C++ and coming up mostly with nodejs libraries. http://libraries.io/search?languages=C%2B%2B&order=desc&sort...

You should check biicode (C++ deps manager) which will be compatible with VersionEye soon allowing you to know about updates in the libs you depend.

https://www.biicode.com

Currently I'm only pulling data from package managers like rubygems and npm, I couldn't find a C++ one yet, although https://www.biicode.com/ looks handy for that, I'll investigate.

C and C++ is usually packaged with the OS's package manager, like dpkg, rpm, pacman, etc.

The closest thing to rubygems might be Portage (1) or AUR (2). You might be able to search each of those for "c++". Or maybe peek into the constituent files for '.c' or '.cpp', '.cxx', etc.

1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portage_%28software%29

2) https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository

include [0] lists reusable Qt libraries.

[0] http://inqlude.org

Nice to see that even my package manager for the Nim programming language is there. Pity that the language is still called "Nimrod" there though.

I'm using https://github.com/github/linguist for language information, still waiting for this pr to be merged for the Nimrod => Nim change: https://github.com/github/linguist/pull/1936

I see. I wonder what's taking them so long. In any case I am impressed that you implemented support for Nimble :)

Quick feedback: Browsing the Go section, each sub directory(at all depths) in the Docker project seems to be listed as a separate project. Leads to showing a few pages of results linking to the same project(ie, Docker). Also may explain why Go seems to have far more number of projects listed than anything else. :)

Update: Better wording

One feature that would be helpful is to parse various formats of dependency specification (Node's package.json, pip's requirements.txt, Maven, etc.) and use that to build dependency lists so that I can (a) get notified of updates and (b) get a list of licenses for internal license audits.

Yep, I'm working on that at the moment.

It would be great if:

- it sorted searches by GitHub starts (otherwise for any popular thing, you get first tons of stuff, in a non-relevant order),

- for PyPI, there is also anther figure of merit, i.e. no of downloads (most are open source, but some are on other repositories),

- in general, for Python it misses some very popular packages... for example, http://libraries.io/search?q=networkx is from PyPI but not from Python (why?).

Otherwise, a very needed idea! I wanted to do my own some time ago (http://pypi.meteor.com/), but didn't have time to bring it to a useful (or nice) version.

And, for some packages clearly being on GitHub, it does not find their place, e.g. http://libraries.io/pypi/pandas vs https://github.com/pydata/pandas (4k+ stars).

You can sort by stars, there's just not a UI yet: http://libraries.io/search?order=desc&sort=stars

Pypi is lacking in information but I'm working on pulling it from other sources to improve the quality for Python libraries.

For PyPI it is rather straightforward to get downloads information: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21419009/json-api-for-pyp... (along with some other data, e.g. categorization). See example: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/seaborn/json

A few of the OCaml projects are showing up under Standard ML [1]. A little disappointing since anyone using OCaml would really benefit from finding out about Merlin (see the link).

This is due to a recent issue (or regression) with how GitHub's Linguist disambiguates code, which I hope will be fixed soon [2].

[1] http://libraries.io/search?languages=Standard+ML

[2] https://github.com/github/linguist/issues/2208

At the moment we lean completely on linguist for language detection, which isn't perfect but gets us a good amount of the way there.

Once we've got OPAM support more OCaml libraries will start to show up.

Why can't this library http://libraries.io/npm/debug be found in this list? http://libraries.io/search?keywords=debug&platforms=NPM

The keyword filtering is slightly borked at the moment, this does work though: http://libraries.io/search?platforms=NPM&q=debug

Good idea but doesn't seem entirely accurate.

This project[http://libraries.io/maven/org.bitbucket.b_c:jose4j] was updated last week but Libraries.io says it hasn't been updated since last year.

OTOH, I pushed a new version of http://libraries.io/rubygems/manticore on Sunday and it's found it. Maybe different repos have different update feeds or something?

Open source discovery... makes me think of freshmeat, later renamed to freecode.com, no longer maitained since a while ago. And before freshmeat, sourceforge... it was always more interesting to me as a catalog than as a hosting provider.

http://versioneye.com/ is similar to this and allows to monitor dependency files like pom.xml, Gemfile.lock, package.json, etc.

Are Go libraries split up more granular than npm packages? Surprises me Go has such a large number of projects listed.

They are at the moment, Go doesn't have a central repository like npmjs.org, each project is just a url that you can "go get", I'm trying to find a good way to group them that keeps the full dependency graph intact.

Looks very interesting. Can't seem to find Qt though, but lots of related things, like qt bindings for node.js

weird there's no not many python entries... where it seems there's way more than 16k package in it (ie: https://alexgaynor.net/2014/jan/03/pypi-download-statistics/)

I don't understand why Wordpress is considered a platform next to npm, bower, pypi etc.

Searching "dancer" brought up related perl modules but not the primary one.

How is it that Go seems to be the most popular?

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