On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Thomas DuBuisson
Daniel provided the wisdom:
"Do not knowingly make your code unportable unless you have a good reason to"
Are there any objections to that maxim?
Thanks for bringing some sanity back. I notice very few people have bothered to comment on the wiki page Neil has setup. Incase anyone has fogotten - this was originally about what packages hoogle should search and which options should be available (and which should be default) for returning platform specific results.
Yes, thanks for dragging this back on topic. I am sorry for my contribution to moving so far away from it.
Platform specifity: The suggestion of platform specific flags, which I now support, seems to be dominante. The only alternate I recall is showing all results catagorized by platform (with 'portable' being on top) - perhaps that could be displayed if there are zero results that are portable.
Default packages searched: I've yet to hear anyone say we should search anything less than the Haskell Platform by default. I also don't think anyone has spoke ill of a "+hackage" flag.
I would agree with Haskell Platform as default search, and also with a +hackage flag. I would also support platform-specific flags if they were simple to implement. John Lato