Replacing Network.CGI with NewCGI

[Bjorn Bringert]

On Aug 11, 2006, at 5:18 PM, Simon Marlow wrote:

> Bjorn Bringert wrote:
>> Any users of Network.CGI here?
>> I would like to propose replacing the current Network.CGI module  
>> with  what is now known as Network.NewCGI [2]. This has been  
>> mentioned  briefly before [1]. The new module is backwards  
>> compatible with the  old one (except for the export of  
>> Text.Html.Html, which is now  Text.XHtml.Html).
>> Here is what I would like to do:
>> - Remove Network.CGI from the network package.
>> - Change the name of Network.NewCGI to Network.CGI
>> - Add the cgi package to http://darcs.haskell.org/packages/
>> - Add the xhtml package [3] to http://darcs.haskell.org/packages/   
>> This is needed since the cgi package uses it to generate error pages.
>> Any comments, suggestions, or objections?
>
> Bjorn - any progress on this?  If you do it in the next week, we  
> could get it into GHC 6.6.  If not, I still intend to separate out  
> CGI from the network package so that it can be more easily replaced  
> by your version.

Since there haven't been any objections, I plan to go ahead with this  
early next week.

Should I switch versioning scheme for the packages that I add? My  
existing packages use date-based version numbers, whereas all  
packages bundled with GHC seem to use a major.minor[.patchlevel] scheme.

/Björn