Proposal: splitting the network package

[Conrad Parker]

On 8 January 2013 14:30, Kazu Yamamoto <kazu at iij.ad.jp> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The network package contains both socket modules and a URI
> module. They are in different level. Since new features are actively
> added to the socket modules, we may want to install a new network
> package even though Haskell Platform includes it. However, the
> Network.URI module depends on Parsec which depends on the text
> package. This sometimes causes dependency hell.
>
> I would like to propose to split the network package into:
> - new network package which contains socket modules only
> - network-uri package which contains Network.URI only
>
> Example implementations are available:
>         https://github.com/kazu-yamamoto/network/tree/no-uri
>         https://github.com/kazu-yamamoto/network-uri
>
> Note that they keep necessary commit history.
>
> In HP, only "HTTP" and "cgi" depends on "network" and they use
> "Network.URI". They can be compiled by just adding "network-uri" as
> dependency.  Also, "http-conduit" uses "Network.URI". This can also be
> compiled by adding "network-uri".
>
> For more information, please refer to:
>         https://github.com/haskell/network/issues/76
>
> Discussion period: 2 weeks

+1

Conrad.