[Haskell-cafe] ANN: HTTPbis / HTTP-4000.x package available

[Don Stewart]

lemming:
> 
> On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Sigbjorn Finne wrote:
> 
> >I guess it's time to publish more widely the availability of a 
> >modernization of the venerable and trusted HTTP package, which I've been 
> >working on off&on for a while.
> 
>  I was always afraid that a fork may happen during I work on HTTP in order 
> to get it more lazy. That's why I started discussion on web-devel mailing 
> list, but got only limited response. I also notified Bjorn, that my 
> changes need still a little time and that I'm worried about darcs 
> conflicts. Seems that we now run into a perfect conflict. I don't like to 
> throw away the work that I have done the last weeks.
> 
> My version is at
>   http://code.haskell.org/~thielema/http/

There's absolutely no need to throw away work. Hackage is a broad
church, release it as http-lazy, at the very least.

-- Don