Neil Mitchell wrote: > Hi > >> 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. > > If a function isn't available on all OS's then all Hoogle would be > encouraging you to do is break compatibility and stop me from using > your software. If a function is only available on one OS you will > certainly have to deliberately choose to search for that, and it will > never show up by default.
I see your point, but why make Hoogle less usable for people interested in writing platform-specific software in Haskell? Will you really ever be interested in running a tool that "debianises" a cabalised Haskell library? I've on several occasions been irritated that hoogle doesn't cover platform-specific APIs. I've written platform-specific software for both Windows (e.g. pretty-printing SDDL) and Linux/Unix (e.g. ptrace-based debugging) and in both cases I'm bitten by this lack in hoogle. Since then I've found Hayoo! and have partly switched to using it instead. > For what shows up by default I more meant other packages. Should > Gtk2hs show up by default? What about tagsoup? What about base? Things > like Win32 will never show up by default. IMHO hoogle should show all standard libraries (x-platform and platform specific) as well as _everything_ on hackage. This would of course mean that the UI must show whether a function is x-platform or not. /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe Haskell is an even 'redder' pill than Lisp or Scheme. -- PaulPotts
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