Yeah, they really should be merged.
Kon, how hard do you think is it to make uri a really superset of url?
Well, let me see if I can try it.
Daishi
On 2/20/07, Kon Lovett <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On Feb 18, 2007, at 11:07 PM, felix winkelmann wrote:
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> > On 2/16/07, Daishi Kato <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Take a look at the uri egg.
> >>
> >> What's the history of these two eggs?
> >> I need to let http egg handle the query string.
> >> Felix, how difficult is it to modify all eggs so that they use uri
> >> instead of url? Or, to make url egg just inherit uri egg?
> >
> > url came before uri and was written by me. Kon later ported
> > the uri egg from SLIB (IIRC). Since uri uses url, you could just
> > use the latter instead (uri is a superset, I think. Kon?)
>
> Actually the uri egg doesn't "use" the url egg but provides
> conversion routines. I guess the uri egg could be called a "superset"
> but in my opinion it is misnamed. URI is an abstraction, a category
> of specific resource naming systems. I think the uri egg is a
> different url egg. (I would like to take what is desired in both,
> combine, & have only one egg - url.)
>
> I wanted to implement the abstraction, w/ pluggable parsers &
> handlers, but never had the time.
>
> The reason for porting the SLIB module was the url egg didn't handle
> "file:/" urls correctly & I wanted such things for the logging egg.
>
> >
> >
> > cheers,
> > felix
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