[pclasses-devel] rethinking the URL class

[stephan b. <st...@s1...>]

Yo,

Last night i realized that from a dependencies point of view, URL is not 
really a Net class. It doesn't depend on any Net functionality, but 
does depend on Unicode. URL doesn't really belong to Unicode, either, 
though. IO and Net both currently use URL (zB, IOHandler::get(URL)), 
but IO should not depend on Net (aber anders rum).

So how about moving URL to IO? A URL does not represent an IO operation, 
but does hold data for a potential IO operation. A URL is essentially a 
pointer to an abstract data source, and data sources are used for IO.

This change would eliminate one circular dep on Net and IO, and would 
also allow the IOManager to not depend on Net (which it shouldn't have 
to). If URL stays in Net then the whole IO and Net modules have a 
circular dep, which complicates building them and will make code 
maintenance more difficult at some point.

Another option is we combine IO and Net into one module. Logically 
speaking, IO/Net are quite similar, and will be used in similar 
contexts. There IS a distinction between them, and 2 separate modules 
is certainly justifiable, but i don't know if most people will realize 
these subtle distinctions.

???

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