State of Elm Packages

[malaire]

@dillonkearns

I’m not sure what kind of dependency/compilation issues you’re referring to here, could you link to some examples and maybe share some error messages?

mattpiz listed many package problems here (November 2020):

Solving dependencies of 11079 elm packages in less than 1s

Bad surprises While solving dependencies for all elm packages, I was surprised to see that some packages could not be solved. So I did an analysis of all those packages and sorted the failures in different categories as follows. Packages depending on non-existing packages Some packages mentionned in dependencies do not exist in the elm registry. I suppose they may have existed at some point and were removed for some reason. As a consequence, there are a number of existing packages in the regist…