Splitting Network.URI from the network package

[Herbert Valerio Riedel]

On 2014-08-15 at 10:35:54 +0200, Christian Maeder wrote:

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> network-uri should be preferred over other "uri" packages [1]

Tbh, I don't like the current Network.URI API, as it's heavily 'String'
based. If you have process/store a lot of URIs you incur a measurable
overhead.

Fwiw, this has been noticed in the past:

 - http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2012-March/100004.html

 - http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.libraries/18761


However, I am not aware of any Network.URI replacement based on 'Text'
or 'ByteString' yet. So far I've just coded up minimal URL parsers that
worked on a small subset of the URI grammer when I wanted something more
efficient.

Cheers,
  hvr