This package provides a low-level networking interface.
Other packages provide higher level interfaces:
connection
hookup
network-simple
network seeks to provide a cross-platform core for networking. As such some
APIs live in extended libraries. Packages in the network ecosystem are
often prefixed with network-.
In network-3.0.0.0 the Network.BSD module was split off into its own
package, network-bsd-3.0.0.0.
In network-2.6 the Network.URI module was split off into its own package,
network-uri-2.6. If you're using the Network.URI module you can
automatically get it from the right package by adding this to your .cabal
file: