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. 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. Thomas