Is this repository used?

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Is this repository used? #93

Open devoncarew opened 2 years ago

devoncarew commented 2 years ago

Hi - I have some general questions about this repo. My understanding was that it was a proof-of-concept for pulling much of dart:io out into regular dart code - potentially making dart:io smaller and only relying on some pieces that had to be native, like sockets.

I don't believe that this project is active anymore however. I do see that this repo is dep'd into the dart sdk, and that its tests are run on the bots (https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/blob/main/DEPS#L343 / /third_party/pkg_tested/http_io). This repo isn't actually consumed by anything however?

Adding in @zanderso @bkonyi and @a-siva who may all have context here (and cc @kevmoo).

bkonyi commented 2 years ago

AFAIK, this repo was originally meant to host the package that's currently dart:_http, but that never really got anywhere. The code here is probably out of date and I don't think there's any reason to keep the repository active.

zanderso commented 2 years ago

Some history:

Initially, the dart:io Http implementation used to use a bunch of calls into the runtime.
I migrated it to be based only on the Socket API.
One motivation for package:http_io was to be the new home for dart:io Http. The other was to ensure that it continued to be possible to implement an http client using only the Socket API (that is, without calling into the runtime.)
The concerns and the package are probably obsoleted by dart:ffi, so I'd say it's safe to nuke it.

mit-mit commented 2 years ago

Thanks, I'll go ahead and archive it!