[Haskell-cafe] Re: Hoogle and Network.Socket

John Lato wrote:

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:

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On 2009 Feb 25, at 5:23, John Lato wrote:

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Brandon Allbery wrote:

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I have to second this; I'm a Unix sysadmin, 98% of the time if I'm writing a program it's for Unix *and* requires POSIX APIxs, and even if it could apply to Windows the program needed there would be very significantly different. __And we have a Windows group for that.

2. __As of now, the "Windows Group" seems to be mostly Duncan. __And

Wrong Windows group: __Duncan doesn't work for us.

Sorry, I misunderstood you. I thought you meant a Windows group within the Haskell community, not within your company.

Honestly, what I wrote wasn't directed at you. As I mentioned before, writing code as a Unix sysadmin has very different priorities than writing for many other problem domains. Most of your code wouldn't make sense outside a Unix context, whereas bytestrings, tries, or graph libraries would.

I don't think it makes sense to talk about missing support on any platform: In a strict sense, how well a platform is supported is a function of how many people care to use it. While there seems to be a disparity between people developing programs on/for Windoze and people working on Windoze's cross-platform capabilities wrt. Haskell, this does not mean that you can rightfully expect people who chose not to use your favourite platform to give a damn about it. Search for allies amidst your pals. I honestly doubt that iff a viable[1] way to support multiple platforms exists any developer aware of it would choose a platform-locked in alternative. This is the only thing you can hope for, and the only thing you need to provide to other developers to get platform support for free. There's a free lunch, after all, but you gotta bring your own dishes. Or pay someone to spoon-feed you, but that's another issue. [1] Which mostly means "negligible additional work for the developer" -- (c) this sig last receiving data processing entity. Inspect headers for copyright history. All rights reserved. Copying, hiring, renting, performance and/or quoting of this signature prohibited.