Libraries.io – Open-Source Discovery Service

More details on how it works in this blog post: <a href="https://medium.com/@teabass/solving-open-source-discovery-db43a04cd9e7" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@teabass&#x2F;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&amp;order=desc&amp;sort=rank" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;libraries.io&#x2F;search?languages=C%2B%2B&amp;order=desc&amp;sort...</a>

Nice to see that even my package manager for the Nim programming language is there. Pity that the language is still called &quot;Nimrod&quot; 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&#x27;s package.json, pip&#x27;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:&#x2F;&#x2F;libraries.io&#x2F;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:&#x2F;&#x2F;pypi.meteor.com&#x2F;</a>), but didn&#x27;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&#x27;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:&#x2F;&#x2F;libraries.io&#x2F;search?languages=Standard+ML</a><p>[2] <a href="https://github.com/github/linguist/issues/2208" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;github&#x2F;linguist&#x2F;issues&#x2F;2208</a>

Why can&#x27;t this library <a href="http://libraries.io/npm/debug" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;libraries.io&#x2F;npm&#x2F;debug</a> be found in this list? <a href="http://libraries.io/search?keywords=debug&amp;platforms=NPM" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;libraries.io&#x2F;search?keywords=debug&amp;platforms=NPM</a>

Good idea but doesn&#x27;t seem entirely accurate.<p>This project[<a href="http://libraries.io/maven/org.bitbucket.b_c:jose4j" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;libraries.io&#x2F;maven&#x2F;org.bitbucket.b_c:jose4j</a>] was updated last week but Libraries.io says it hasn&#x27;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:&#x2F;&#x2F;versioneye.com&#x2F;</a> 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.

Looks very interesting. Can&#x27;t seem to find Qt though, but lots of related things, like qt bindings for node.js

weird there&#x27;s no not many python entries... where it seems there&#x27;s way more than 16k package in it (ie: <a href="https://alexgaynor.net/2014/jan/03/pypi-download-statistics/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;alexgaynor.net&#x2F;2014&#x2F;jan&#x2F;03&#x2F;pypi-download-statistics&#x2F;</a>)

I don&#x27;t understand why Wordpress is considered a platform next to npm, bower, pypi etc.

Searching &quot;dancer&quot; brought up related perl modules but not the primary one.

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