[Haskell-cafe] Hoogle and Network.Socket

Svein Ove Aas svein.ove at aas.no
Thu Feb 19 13:19:56 EST 2009


2009/2/19 Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at serpentine.com>:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 6:50 PM, 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.
>
> I can't suggest why the network package isn't being indexed by Hoogle, but
> it does indeed work on Windows and is not, as erroneously stated by another
> respondent, POSIX-only.
>
If you say so, but..

Unix domain sockets?
sendFd?

I can't claim *none* of it works on windows, but those functions must
at best be undefined on windows - right?


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