On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 7:55 PM, Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvr@gnu.org> wrote:

Hello Greg,

On 2014-04-09 at 17:51:11 +0200, Greg Weber wrote:
> I don't think we are going to include a package in the platform that was
> just changed today to work on Windows. Have you looked at building
> http-streams on top of http-client as pipes-http has done? That seems like
> the ideal solution if it is possible: then we can just include http-client
> in the platform.

Is the http-client API really mature enough (for being included in the
HP) after having gone through 3 major version bumps in its rather short
lifespan? I wouldn't be surprised if the http-client API required yet
another major version bump in order to accomodate http-client.

Do you mean to accommodate http-streams? If so, I doubt it: the streaming aspects of the library have been completely unchanged. For the record, the changes in the API were:

0.3: transition from failure to exceptions package

0.2: replace the original, placeholder API with the intended end-user API

0.1: initial pre-release

So it's not 3 major version bumps, it's two major version bumps, one of which being the first "real" release and the second being due to consolidated upstream packages. So the API isn't as unstable as it seems.

That said, I'm not actually advocating for including http-client in this revision: I think it's pretty late in the game for a new package in the platform, and I *do* think a few more months of testing to see if everyone's happy with the API makes a lot of sense.

Michael