On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 5:52 AM, wren ng thornton <wren@freegeek.org> wrote:

+1. There are plenty of projects and tools I can think of that would want to use URIs without having any reason to bring in all of HTTP.

The reason I proposed that doesn't have anything to do with whether it makes sense for the URI code to live in that package in the long term. Instead:

HTTP is also already in the platform
HTTP uses this code
the existing Network.URI code is inefficient by design and cannot be improved without breaking user code
for backwards compatibility, we would like to have this code live on somewhere so that porting old code is easier.

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Gregory Collins <greg@gregorycollins.net>