Splitting Network.URI from the network package

[Kazu Yamamoto (=?iso-2022-jp?B?GyRCOzNLXE9CSScbKEI=?=)]

Hi,

> This was brought up last year[1], and I'd like to bring it up again, based
> on a recent issue I was working through with a user[2]. I realize that this
> is a breaking change, but:

+1

> 1. Create a new package, network-uri, version 2.5.0.0, which exposes no
> modules and has an upper bound `network < 2.6.

Yes, I think that we agreed with the package name of "network-uri".

> 2. Create a second release of network-uri, version 3.0.0.0, which provides
> the Network.URI module verbatim as provided by the network package today,
> and has a lower bound `network >= 3.0`.
> 3. Release network version 3.0.0.0, with no changes from the currently
> released version, except that (a) no Network.URI module is provided, and
> (b) there is no parsec dependency.
> 
> I don't remember how the discussion went last time, but I seem to remember
> general consensus. I'd like to set a discussion period of two weeks (August
> 15).

The consensus was to separate the network-uri package from the network
package. We did not reach how to do it. But I think you should put it
forward because we should not repeat the plateau again.

--Kazu