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