On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 02:02:47PM -0800, John Meacham wrote: > Hi, out of curiosity, why does darcs not use the Network.HTTP native > haskell http library (http://www.haskell.org/http/) instead of > attempting to use libcurl or libwww? > > are the reasons just historical, and if so would moving to Network.HTTP > be something that is wanted?
It's partly historical (darcs predates Network.HTTP), and partly (in the case of libwww) because Network.HTTP does not support pipelining (which is the motivation behind the recent work). At least, that's been my impression. There's also the (in practice, minor) factor that Network.HTTP supports fewer protocols. Adding support for Network.HTTP would be great--as a compile-time alternative. -- David Roundy Department of Physics Oregon State University _______________________________________________ darcs-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel
