[erlang-questions] Split Cowboy's acceptor and HTTP code

[Benoit Chesneau]

+1 for splitting it out. It will make the life easier for people who
are using only the acceptor part . Also it's better to do that early I
guess.

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Loïc Hoguin <essen@REDACTED> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have received a lot of feedback on Cowboy recently, especially at the
> Erlang Factory. The main concern people seem to have today is that many of
> you seem to want to use Cowboy's acceptor code and transport abstraction,
> but don't want to include the HTTP components.
>
> I argued until now that you can always remove the HTTP modules from the
> release if you want, and that it's easier to work on improving both sides at
> the same time without the dependency, while still keeping in mind that the
> two parts would eventually get split before 1.0.
>
> Considering the feedback, I'm wondering if now would be the time to split
> them.
>
> Most people use rebar nowadays, so the dependency should be handled
> automatically. But I did receive a few comments before from people who liked
> the fact that Cowboy was a single package.
>
> If the split happens, it will be right after the next version tag, 0.6.0,
> and will most likely include a renaming of most modules all in a single
> commit. People who follow master will need to update their code immediately
> (I'll give a script to do that automatically), while others staying at 0.6.0
> will have some time to make it happen.
>
> If you don't want the split to happen at this point, you should probably
> reply to this mail so we can all discuss what should happen and when.
>
> I hope it won't be too much trouble on everyone, the module renaming script
> should take care of most of it.
>
> Thanks for your feedback, as always!
>
> --
> Loïc Hoguin
> Erlang Cowboy
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