On 5/4/06, Isaac Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Lemmih <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 5/2/06, Shae Matijs Erisson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Isaac Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > Welcome to the cabal-devel mailing list! I'm very please to see so
>> > many folks signed up already. I'll just re-post the release
>> > announcement that Duncan made below.
>>
>> I've been hacking on minimizing the cabal-get requirements.
>> I spoke to Bjorn Bringert, he split Network.Browser into its own package so
>> that the Network.HTTP package no longer requires crypto.
>>
>> Next steps for me are to minimize xml-rpc and its dependency, HaXml.
>
> Why not cut the xml-rpc dependency completely? It should be an evening
> hack to replace it with, say, BEncode.
Shae also suggested getting rid of xml-rpc. I'm not totally against
it, but it would be nice if folks could easily write clients! having
a hackage-client packages is helpful here, but it doesn't help for
other languages. Suggestions?
Writing a BEncode parser is almost simpler than learning to use an XML-toolkit.
Jokes aside, I think our convenience is paramount and inter-language
integration should be secondary. If we can get this thing in the air
then by all means lets do it and leave these issues to a later
version.
--
Friendly,
Lemmih
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