[Haskell-cafe] Hoogle and Network.Socket

[Thomas DuBuisson]

Niel,

Outside of flags to enable display of modules specific to each major
platform (+windows, +posix, +osx) I see two options.  This all depends
on hoogle having some sort of list of modules for each platform, which
I believe would be the main problem.

1) Show all the functions (when the number is low), but place platform
specific functions under separate headers: "Windows",
"Linux/BSD/POSIX", "OS X", etc.

This way the users can remain as ignorant as I was and still find their data.

2) Detect the OS (when possible - perhaps difficult for the web/JS
interface) and display the functions specific to the platform
requesting the search.

This has a small issue if you are searching on one platform and
programming on/for another platform.  But the flags could still be
used.

Thomas

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Neil Mitchell <ndmitchell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> http://haskell.org/hoogle/?q=socket+%2Bnetwork
>
> By default it searches the libraries supplied with Windows apart from
> Network (for various technical reasons). If you add +network it will
> then search the network library.
>
> What libraries should Hoogle search by default? What flags should be
> available to control which ones are searched? I have no idea, if you
> do then say what you think and why!
>
> Thanks
>
> Neil
>
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:50 AM, Thomas DuBuisson
> <thomas.dubuisson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I recall that Niel made sure hoogle doesn't search through
>> non-portable libraries (a shame), but I thought Network.Socket could
>> be used on Windows and yet Hoogle does not give any results for
>> 'socket' or any other functions within Network.Socket.
>>
>> First, am I mistaken and Network.Socket is POSIX only?  I could swear
>> it wasn't.  Secondly - is there any chance of lifting the non-portable
>> libraries ban, Niel?  From the stand point of an application developer
>> it might not sound good, but even in Haskell some software is system
>> level and bound to be single platform (case and point: XCB, xmonad,
>> hsXenCtrl).  Judging by the amount of research in systems level
>> functional programming I wouldn't be surprised to see this collection
>> grow and making functions hard to find isn't productive.
>>
>> Thomas
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