Gearing up (again) for the next release: 2014.2.0.0

[Michael Snoyman]

On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 7:55 PM, Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvr at gnu.org> wrote:

> Hello Greg,
>
> On 2014-04-09 at 17:51:11 +0200, Greg Weber wrote:
> > I don't think we are going to include a package in the platform that was
> > just changed today to work on Windows. Have you looked at building
> > http-streams on top of http-client as pipes-http has done? That seems
> like
> > the ideal solution if it is possible: then we can just include
> http-client
> > in the platform.
>
> Is the http-client API really mature enough (for being included in the
> HP) after having gone through 3 major version bumps in its rather short
> lifespan? I wouldn't be surprised if the http-client API required yet
> another major version bump in order to accomodate http-client.
>
>
Do you mean to accommodate http-streams? If so, I doubt it: the streaming
aspects of the library have been completely unchanged. For the record, the
changes in the API were:

0.3: transition from failure to exceptions package
0.2: replace the original, placeholder API with the intended end-user API
0.1: initial pre-release

So it's not 3 major version bumps, it's two major version bumps, one of
which being the first "real" release and the second being due to
consolidated upstream packages. So the API isn't as unstable as it seems.

That said, I'm not actually advocating for including http-client in this
revision: I think it's pretty late in the game for a new package in the
platform, and I *do* think a few more months of testing to see if
everyone's happy with the API makes a lot of sense.

Michael
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