Publishing alga

[snowleopard]

Publishing alga

[ndmitchell]

Alga is an awesome name, but it is unfortunately taken. Using Alga does work according to the rules of Hackage, but is confusing and generally packages are expected to be lower-kebab-case - I wouldn't recommend it (if the existing package was Alga and not heavily used you could just about get away with it).

algebraic-graphs seems good.

[snowleopard]

Hey @adelbertc!

I'm currently preparing the library for Hackage (writing docs, refactoring the module structure, etc.) and aim to release it very soon.

Indeed, the name is already taken, which is unfortunate. I think I'll release the library as alga-core. It will be lightweight and will have minimal dependencies. More heavyweight stuff (e.g. algorithms operating on algebraic graphs that may potentially pull in dependencies such as fgl) will go into a separate library.

[adelbertc]

Awesome, looking forward to it! If I end up writing some stuff on top of alga I'll be sure to let you know :-)

[snowleopard]

@l-d-s @ndmitchell I don't think I explained this anywhere before: "alga" is a sort of acronym for "algebraic graphs", which also means "go!" or "come on!" in Kyrgyz language -- a little hidden tribute to my home country :-)

As far as I understand, we could use Alga (capitalised) on Hackage. Would this be confusing?

A more verbose name, but very precise one is algebraic-graphs. I think if we don't go the alga way, this is my current preference.

@ndmitchell Yep, graph-core is also an option. It may be still too generic though.

[snowleopard]

The library has been released on Hackage: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/algebraic-graphs and is on the way to Stackage.

It's got 100% documentation coverage, and close to 100% test coverage.

🎉

[l-d-s]

I suggest a name that more directly evokes graphs might be more salient.

Very much looking forward to the maturation of this library.

[ndmitchell]

While I think alga is a perfectly fine name, if foo exists on hackage, calling your library foo-core is probably a bad idea. That name is gone - time to think of a new one...

[ndmitchell]

On the other hand, graph-core wouldn't be so bad since graph is not a "named" library as such being too generic.

[adelbertc]

👍 to algebraic-graphs

[snowleopard]

OK, the above commit switched the package name to algebraic-graphs.

We can still refer to the project/library as Alga, for brevity :)