[Haskell-cafe] Hoogle index completeness

[Radical]

Thanks, Petr.

I see that the comments are from years ago. Are there any ongoing efforts
to expand the default search set? (Or alternatively, to implement the
+hackage modifier mentioned.)

Is there interest in either of these things happening?

Alvaro




On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Petr P <petr.mvd at gmail.com> wrote:

>   Hi Alvaro,
>
> by default Hoogle only searches some standard set of packages, which is
> only a relatively small subset of all Hackage content. From
> http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Hoogle#Scope_of_Web_Searches :
>
> > Using the standard web interface, Hoogle searches: array, arrows, base,
> bytestring, Cabal, cgi, containers, directory, filepath, haskell-src,
> HUnit, mtl, old-locale, old-time, packedstring, parallel, parsec, pretty,
> process, QuickCheck, random, stm, template-haskell, time, xhtml.
>
> See http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Hoogle/Packages
>
> One solution is to install Hoogle locally and let it index all packages
> you have installed.
>
> Best regards,
> Petr
>
>
> 2012/12/19 Radical <radical at google.com>
>
>> Searching Hoogle for symbols like `rstrip` or `lstrip` produces "No
>> results found" for me, even though they exist in the MissingH library.
>> To wit:
>> http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/MissingH/1.2.0.0/doc/html/Data-String-Utils.html
>>
>> Is this behavior intentional, or a regression of some sort? I could
>> have sworn the above symbols showed up at some point.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Alvaro
>>
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