[elm-discuss] deprecating packages?

[Raoul Duke]

The 1st and 3rd of these look awfully similar, thus confusing. Doing a
quick google search didn't immediately make it obvious to me which to
prefer, either.


```
Here are some packages that have similar names:

elm-community/linear-algebra
opensolid/linear-algebra
elm-community/elm-linear-algebra
elm-community/array-extra

Maybe you want one of those?
```

[Raoul Duke]

Apparently, looking on http://package.elm-lang.org/,
elm-community/elm-linear-algebra "The following packages have not been
updated for 0.18 yet!" Maybe the elm-package help text could say that,
at least in this case it would seem to help be choose which one to
use. Of course, if something with a very similar name ever does get
updated it would be back to being less obvious which to prefer.

[Matthieu Pizenberg]

Hello Raoul, just a few remarks about your post:

This output you show in the first message `Here are some ...`, is this an
output of the compiler? If so, and if you found it a bit confusing there is
something awesome you can do. Great error messages in the elm ecosystem are
important, so there exist a repo
(https://github.com/elm-lang/error-message-catalog) for that. If you think
this output is confusing, especially because some packages are not up to
date, you should make an issue there.

Now regarding those two posts, I'm not sure exactly what you're looking
for? There is a question mark in you title, but no question in your posts.
Are you looking for help to choose a package? wanting to make a point about
possible improvements, or just ranting about something that does not suit
you? In any case (except the last one ^^) you might want to be a little
more verbose, because now we are in the unconfortable situation of not
knowing what to answer.

Best regards,
Matthieu

[Raoul Duke]

Thanks for the thoughtful response. Mostly just wanted to point out how
confusing things can be, especially for peoplenot already inured to the ux
issues. Since perhaps it impacts adoption. Should anybody be able to / care
to do anything about it, I don't know. :)