On 17/01/2013 10:45, Gregory Collins wrote:
- the current Network.URI is not a great module to begin with
This may well be true, but I'd like to understand why you say this.
- do we need a library to handle URIs in the platform at all? I would argue for its complete removal here. If necessary, after a deprecation cycle we can just throw that code into HTTP. It makes sense for it to live there (do we want to be providing people with APIs that use String these days?), and we don't contribute to package proliferation.
If Haskell Platform is to be a serious contender for web applications generally, I claim it MUST have a good URI implementation. And URIs are about far more than just HTTP, so I think simply treating them as part of HTTP doesn't entirely hack it; they also underpin aspects of XML and linked data applications, somewhat independently of HTTP. #g --