[Haskell-cafe] Creating the network-bsd package

[Fumiaki Kinoshita]

I was having trouble because of the deprecation; network-bsd would be
really appreciated. As for splitting, I think there's nothing special to
do. On users side I'd prefer flags.

2018年10月12日(金) 12:44 Kazu Yamamoto <kazu at iij.ad.jp>:

> Hi,
>
> We the network package maintainers are planning to release network
> v3.0.0.0 which enables extending socket addresses. In this version, we
> will remove the Network.BSD module which version 2.7 already
> deprecates.
>
> Unfortunately, it appeared that many users use Network.BSD and there
> is no good alternative. So, I would like to split it into another
> package, say, network-bsd.
>
> Some years ago, the same thing happened to Network.URI, resulting in
> the network-uri and network-uri-flag packages. Currently, I'm planing
> to take the same approach:
>
> ----
> flag network-bsd
> library
>   -- ...
>   if flag(network-bsd)
>     build-depends: network-bsd >= 3.0, network >= 3.0
>   else
>     build-depends: network-bsd < 3.0, network < 3.0
> ---
>
> Or
>
> ----
> build-depends:
>     network >= 2.5 && < 2.7,
>     network-bsd >= 2.5 && < 2.7,
>     network-bsd-flag == 0.1.*
> ---
>
> Question: is this a correct appoarch? Or are there any better ways to
> split Netwrok.BSD?
>
> --Kazu
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