Proposal: splitting the network package

[Michael Snoyman]

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 12:40 AM, Johan Tibell <johan.tibell at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Michael Snoyman <michael at snoyman.com>wrote:
>
>> Many users won't be able to upgrade to the new network library
>> immediately. However, adding an extra dependency on (an essentially empty)
>> network-uri is perfectly feasible. My approach makes it possible for
>> library authors to make their code compatible with both network 1.4 and 1.5
>> with just a single line change.
>>
>> If you want to see examples that were more painful from the author
>> perspective, consider the previous merging of network and
>> network-bytestring, or the blaze-markup/blaze-html split. Both of them
>> required adding cabal flags and conditionals to every user package that
>> wanted to work with both versions, which definitely caused some headaches.
>>
>
> Someone ought to write a "How to split a package" and a "How to merge two
> packages" guide that carefully lists out the steps and the pros and cons of
> the approach.
>
> -- Johan
>
>

I'll be happy to write such a guide. But I'd like to get some consensus on
whether the approach I've sketched out so far is acceptable, particular for
packages in the HP.

Michael
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