Re: Proposal: splitting the network package

On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Michael Snoyman wrote:

On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Kazu Yamamoto wrote:

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Well, that approach requires the creation of an extra package and ultimately deprecating the main package, forcing users to have to learn about a new package. I'd rather not have to rename a package just because I want to split off one piece of functionality to a separate package.

I think that Michael should write two approaches in the document. And we should choose one out of two for "network".

I've written up the approach I advocated and put it in a Google document[1] for comments. I'd rather not volunteer to write up an explanation of someone else's approach, as I might guess some of the details wrong.

Note that my stated objectives (particularly 5) may go beyond what we'd previously been discussing here, but they all came up in my work on http-conduit/http-conduit-browser, so I think it likely that the need will resurface for someone else in the future.

I'll be back online on Sunday to review comments and to add the second half on merge strategies (which admittedly I have not thought about quite as much). If there's consensus with the document, I can move it to the Haskell Wiki, or wherever else someone thinks would be more logical.

Michael

[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bGSlTB8RaFlztmTp4FW5tEH8UUex95969z-7wygk...

I've also added a section on merging.