Consider migrating from httr to httr2

[jhk0530]

Hi, thanks for maintaing this package. I have small questions in submission to cran with submit_cran() function.

Background

The devtools package currently uses httr for handling HTTP requests in the CRAN submission process. However, httr2 is the recommended successor to httr with improved API design.

Current usage

Following functions, are using httr

• check-mac.R
• release.R
• run-source.R

Questions

1. Is this migration a priority for the package?
2. Are there any compatibility concerns with maintaining support for older R versions?
3. Would you prefer a complete PR or an initial proof of concept?

Thanks

[jennybc]

@hadley What do you think? My inclination is that a proof of concept or PR is welcome. I'm not aware of compatibility concerns, but I'm also not an httr2 expert.

[hadley]

Yeah, httr's not going away so it's pretty low priority for us. But that makes it a great project for a community member to tackle 😄 It shouldn't be too complicated and it would make a small but meaningful improvement to the package.