More details on how it works in this blog post: <a href="https://medium.com/@teabass/solving-open-source-discovery-db43a04cd9e7" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/@teabass/solving-open-source-discovery-db...</a>
Browsing C++ and coming up mostly with nodejs libraries. <a href="http://libraries.io/search?languages=C%2B%2B&order=desc&sort=rank" rel="nofollow">http://libraries.io/search?languages=C%2B%2B&order=desc&sort...</a>
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.
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. :)<p>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.
It would be great if:<p>- it sorted searches by GitHub starts (otherwise for any popular thing, you get first tons of stuff, in a non-relevant order),<p>- for PyPI, there is also anther figure of merit, i.e. no of downloads (most are open source, but some are on other repositories),<p>- in general, for Python it misses some very popular packages... for example, <a href="http://libraries.io/search?q=networkx" rel="nofollow">http://libraries.io/search?q=networkx</a> is from PyPI but not from Python (why?).<p>Otherwise, a very needed idea! I wanted to do my own some time ago (<a href="http://pypi.meteor.com/" rel="nofollow">http://pypi.meteor.com/</a>), but didn't have time to bring it to a useful (or nice) version.
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).<p>This is due to a recent issue (or regression) with how GitHub's Linguist disambiguates code, which I hope will be fixed soon [2].<p>[1] <a href="http://libraries.io/search?languages=Standard+ML" rel="nofollow">http://libraries.io/search?languages=Standard+ML</a><p>[2] <a href="https://github.com/github/linguist/issues/2208" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/github/linguist/issues/2208</a>
Why can't this library <a href="http://libraries.io/npm/debug" rel="nofollow">http://libraries.io/npm/debug</a> be found in this list? <a href="http://libraries.io/search?keywords=debug&platforms=NPM" rel="nofollow">http://libraries.io/search?keywords=debug&platforms=NPM</a>
Good idea but doesn't seem entirely accurate.<p>This project[<a href="http://libraries.io/maven/org.bitbucket.b_c:jose4j" rel="nofollow">http://libraries.io/maven/org.bitbucket.b_c:jose4j</a>] was updated last week but Libraries.io says it hasn't been updated since last year.
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.
<a href="http://versioneye.com/" rel="nofollow">http://versioneye.com/</a> is similar to this and allows to monitor dependency files like pom.xml, Gemfile.lock, package.json, etc.
weird there's no not many python entries... where it seems there's way more than 16k package in it (ie: <a href="https://alexgaynor.net/2014/jan/03/pypi-download-statistics/" rel="nofollow">https://alexgaynor.net/2014/jan/03/pypi-download-statistics/</a>)