On 8 January 2013 14:30, Kazu Yamamoto
Hello,
The network package contains both socket modules and a URI module. They are in different level. Since new features are actively added to the socket modules, we may want to install a new network package even though Haskell Platform includes it. However, the Network.URI module depends on Parsec which depends on the text package. This sometimes causes dependency hell.
I would like to propose to split the network package into: - new network package which contains socket modules only - network-uri package which contains Network.URI only
Example implementations are available: https://github.com/kazu-yamamoto/network/tree/no-uri https://github.com/kazu-yamamoto/network-uri
Note that they keep necessary commit history.
In HP, only "HTTP" and "cgi" depends on "network" and they use "Network.URI". They can be compiled by just adding "network-uri" as dependency. Also, "http-conduit" uses "Network.URI". This can also be compiled by adding "network-uri".
For more information, please refer to: https://github.com/haskell/network/issues/76
Discussion period: 2 weeks
+1 Conrad.