Re: [Haskell-cafe] Network trouble: what to do?

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 6:54 AM, Creighton Hogg wrote:

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Is there a way around this that I just haven't seen, or should I write a patch to Network to add an extra constructor to SockAddr and code to handle it?

Linux and Windows support Bluetooth sockets, but they have different ideas of what the address family is called (AF_BTH vs AF_BLUETOOTH). Less popular platforms are all over the map: some (Solaris) have no support, others (NetBSD) don't use sockets for Bluetooth. I don't think that a patch to Network.Socket is the way to go for this, since it won't be portable enough. Perhaps a Network.Bluetooth package is in order to hide all the platform-specific gunk.

Ah, I've only ever used Bluetooth on Linux and didn't realize how different it was between platforms. I think you're right, then, and a Network.Bluetooth would be a good idea. Cheers, Creighton