[Haskell-cafe] Hoogle and Network.Socket

[Jonathan Cast]

On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 07:25 -0700, John A. De Goes wrote:
> I think the (valid) concern is that too many people are choosing  
> platform-specific packages when there are alternatives available  
> (albeit not as convenient in some cases), and this really hurts the  
> Windows community because Windows is so radically different from all  
> the other operating systems.
> 
> Not showing platform-specific packages by default *might* make package  
> writers more likely to develop cross-platform packages. We've heard  
> many times someone say, "I don't know if it works on Windows, never  
> really thought of that."

Um, why *should* I think of that?

jcc