新的“DL”在 Hackage 包搜索中的排名是如何计算的?

How is the new “DL” ranking in the Hackage package search calculated?

Hackage package search as of now doesn't just give a list of all matches as it used to do, but allows sorting them in various ways. Notably, it is now possible to sort by rating, i.e. by how satisfied users were with the package (if people will actually start rating packages... this has been possible for a while but almost no votes are assigned yet), and by some “DL” criterium. I first assumed this somehow counted the reverse dependencies, i.e. described how many other packages depend on this one, but that can't seem to be the case since base has only a value of 1692 而例如base64-bytestring 高达 7384。

如果不是这样,这个数字告诉我什么?

是下载。

点击 base 例如显示:

Downloads 21206 total (1692 in the last 30 days)

看来这是最近 30 天的下载计数。