sitting in a pub with some beer having a platform war). Martijn's thoughts of +windows, +unix, +os is exactly right, I'm happy to let users say "oh, please show me these packages", but there are trade-offs in Hoogle design. If someone has some clear viewpoint on the answers, I'd love to hear them. The three problems are:
1) What packages should Hoogle search by default? All of hackage? The base libraries? Only the packages a user has installed? Only packages that make it in to the Haskell Platform?
Why not make that configurable, similar to trac's custom queries, defining several default configurations with short names (+windows, +hackage, +hp, ..), rather than trying to define one default config? The kinds of configuration option available could be taken from information available to hackage/cabal (which presumably will specify/show platforms at some point). Claus