[Haskell-cafe] Hoogle and Network.Socket

[Neil Mitchell]

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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