Splitting Network.URI from the network package

[MightyByte]

Soostone just started working on a uri-bytestring package.  It's not
quite ready for hackage yet, but it is pretty useable.

https://github.com/Soostone/uri-bytestring

On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Carter Schonwald
<carter.schonwald at gmail.com> wrote:
> +1 to this. Evolving the lib to support text too would be high roi.
>
> I'd be happy to help maintain URI if that sort of change / evolution was in
> scope for how to evolve it.
>
> On Friday, August 15, 2014, Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvr at gnu.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 2014-08-15 at 10:35:54 +0200, Christian Maeder wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> > 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
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