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

Achim Schneider wrote:

Thomas DuBuisson wrote:

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I still prefer showing all platform results sorted into separate sections with headers, but understand that I am in the minority.

You aren't alone. Labelling them prominently with POSIX, UNIX, Linux, *BSD, OSX resp. Windoze is a Good Thing: That way, noone has to dig into package docs. "Show N more results specific to platform Foo"-links would be a good idea, too.

Indeed, you are not alone. Though, I think it might be easier to have an icon next to the search hits, rather than segregating by platform--- since segregating/sectioning runs counter to relevance ranking. Of course icons clutter things up (though we can be innovative about what "icon" means and use them to colorize text or similar; since we have so few of them). But then there's a whole literature on clustered search engines that we could delve into for UI considerations (clustered-search folks tend to care about such things). The main point is that I think even arch/os/compiler-specific packages should be searched by default and simply annotated as being platform-specific, rather than requiring flags (a hitherto undocumented feature). Cookies should be used to facilitate or suppress such platform specificities (with a URL interface to adjust the cookie). Lacking a wiki account, ~wren