[web-devel] Last call for comments: WAI 0.4

[Jasper Van der Jeugt]

happstack-server [1] already depends on blaze-html, and blaze-html
depends on blaze-builder, so the latter indeed a pretty common
dependency these days.

[1]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/happstack-server

Cheers,
Jasper

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Michael Snoyman <michael at snoyman.com> wrote:
> blaze-builder is basically a necessity for any serious web application
> these days: both Warp and Snap depend on it, and I believe Happstack
> will in the near future. text is a dependency of blaze-builder, and
> moreover, WAI is using the text datatypes directly, so it also needs
> to be there.
>
> case-insensitive is basically there for convenience: it's nice to have
> a single package providing a datatype everyone can use. I also agree
> that base-unicode-symbols doesn't really add anything, but I didn't
> really bother with asking for it to be removed. If it becomes an
> issue, maybe Bas will consider dropping it as a dependency.
>
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Christian Maeder
> <Christian.Maeder at dfki.de> wrote:
>> I skimmed through it (I'm still using wai-extra-0.2.4.2)
>>
>> There's not much code left to comment on. I'll have to get used to the new
>> Response data type, though.
>>
>> I'm sort of shocked by the many dependencies (already via http-types) on
>> blaze-builder, text, case-insensitive and (really unnecessarily) on
>> base-unicode-symbols.
>>
>> So I'll rather expect problems in dependent packages than in wai.
>>
>> Thanks for your work!
>>
>> Cheers Christian
>>
>> Am 28.03.2011 09:02, schrieb Michael Snoyman:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Just wanted to give everyone a last chance to give input on WAI 0.4
>>> before its release. You can see the code on Github[1]. The main things
>>> to point out in this release are:
>>>
>>> * We've switched to using http-types, so WAI needs to define much less
>>> on its own (i.e., statuses, HTTP versions, etc). Additionally, we now
>>> rely on the case-insensitive library for header keys.
>>> * The Request datatype now contains parsed pathInfo and queryString.
>>> This makes it more efficient to write middlewares. The raw path info
>>> and query string are still available as rawPathInfo and
>>> rawQueryString, respectively.
>>> * Partial file responses are now supported. The ResponseFile
>>> constructor takes a fourth argument, Maybe FilePart. FilePart contains
>>> the offset and count.
>>>
>>> If anyone has other ideas that they'd like to see implemented in WAI,
>>> please get them in sooner, rather than later. I'm hoping that this
>>> release will last for quite a while. We'll also be releasing a number
>>> of associated packages at the same time (wai-extra, warp, wai-test,
>>> etc), so if you have comments on those, feel free to submit them as
>>> well.
>>>
>>> Michael
>>>
>>> [1] https://github.com/snoyberg/wai/blob/master/Network/Wai.hs
>>
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