Case study: Most of the shopping site like Amazon,Flipkart have option to categorization or filtering producing based on customer requirements like Rating,Brand,Price range etc which can found at left hand side of the screen in most of the case eg:
My proposal is about adding such type of feature like filtering and categorization libries in crate.io
eg :
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Target operating system
- Windows
- Linux
- Mac
- Android
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Target architecture
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Arm64
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Arm32
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x86
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x32
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Category
- Gui
- machine learning
- data science
- Embedded
- non std
- algorithm
- othe r
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License
- MIT
- Apache 2.0
- gnu
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Ordering
- Test pass
- alphabet
- downloads
You may have the double that Rust code will run in different platform and use LLVM Technology, and you can find this type of detail using tag and documentation of package available in crates.io why is this type of feature
Some time rust contain FFI library or Api that available only to a particular operating system and Architecture or sometime a library is only build for a particular operating system which develop forget to specifies in document or tag of a package or library
eg Rust library build using Direct X or win32 ui which available only in windows
Data for filtering purpose or categorization of library can be obtained form cargo.toml file or from the developer by asking during uploading package to crate.io
you can add such type of feature as a side bar , pop up page,slide down section which completely depend on ui/ux designer
you can find some categorization features when you enter in to the home page of crates.io like New Crates,Most Downloaded.Just Updated,Most Recent Downloads etc
i already posted this in crates.io issue section
i wand a feedback whether it will be a good idea because i didn't see any filtering or categorization option in any other package manager like npm,yarn,pip,hex