Merging bsb-http-chunked into blaze-builder?

[sjakobi]

I extracted the bsb-http-chunked package from blaze-builder back when blaze-builder seemed largely unmaintained and in demise.

warp now uses bsb-http-chunked, but http-streams and snap-server have stuck with blaze-builder so far.

Now that blaze-builder is actively maintained again, it seems pretty pointless to maintain the same API in two places.

The main changes that I expect I could contribute to Blaze.ByteString.Builder.HTTP are:

• Docs improvements
• Test improvements
• Benchmark improvements
• Possibly refactorings and very minor performance improvements

I'm not very keen to be involved in general package maintenance, but I'd be willing to help with issues specific to Blaze.ByteString.Builder.HTTP.

What do you think?

[andreasabel]

I am just a bound-bumper here, really, maybe @jaspervdj has more specific opinions.
I am happy for contributions that maintain backwards-compatibility: these are uncontroversial. For larger changes, one would have to dig deeper into the material.
@sjakobi, I invited you to the organization, and I would appreciate if you made your membership public (in case you accept). I think it is good if one can see who is part of the maintainer group of a package.

[jaspervdj]

blaze-builder was originally written by Simon Meier and me in an attempt to get fast string concatenation for blaze-html. Initially, it lived as a part of blaze-html and later as a separate package (since fast string concatenation is useful in many places).

Simon's vision was that this code should really be part of ByteString, and I still think this is the right approach. However, after the code was ported to ByteString, this package sort of stuck around, mostly due to gaps in the API, like @sjakobi pointed out. Having an additional package bsb-http-chunked to fill this gap sounds like the right way forward to me.

[sjakobi]

Alright. If the goal still is to eventually retire blaze-builder, I'll keep bsb-http-chunked as a separate package.

Thanks for the feedback! :)