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| author | V3n3RiX <venerix@redcorelinux.org> | 2017-10-09 18:53:29 +0100 |
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| committer | V3n3RiX <venerix@redcorelinux.org> | 2017-10-09 18:53:29 +0100 |
| commit | 4f2d7949f03e1c198bc888f2d05f421d35c57e21 (patch) | |
| tree | ba5f07bf3f9d22d82e54a462313f5d244036c768 /dev-haskell/vector-binary-instances/metadata.xml | |
reinit the tree, so we can have metadata
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diff --git a/dev-haskell/vector-binary-instances/metadata.xml b/dev-haskell/vector-binary-instances/metadata.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..db582d2c5586 --- /dev/null +++ b/dev-haskell/vector-binary-instances/metadata.xml @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> +<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> +<pkgmetadata> + <maintainer type="project"> + <email>haskell@gentoo.org</email> + <name>Gentoo Haskell</name> + </maintainer> + <longdescription> + Instances for Binary for the types defined in the vector package, + making it easy to serialize vectors to and from disk. We use the + generic interface to vectors, so all vector types are supported. + Specific instances are provided for unboxed, boxed and storable + vectors. + + To serialize a vector: + + > *Data.Vector.Binary> let v = Data.Vector.fromList [1..10] + > *Data.Vector.Binary> v + > fromList [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10] :: Data.Vector.Vector + > *Data.Vector.Binary> encode v + > Chunk "\NUL\NUL\NUL\NUL\NUL...\NUL\NUL\NUL\t\NUL\NUL\NUL\NUL\n" Empty + + Which you can in turn compress before writing to disk: + + > compress . encode $ v + > Chunk "\US\139\b\NUL\NUL\N...\229\240,\254:\NUL\NUL\NUL" Empty + </longdescription> + <upstream> + <remote-id type="github">bos/vector-binary-instances</remote-id> + </upstream> +</pkgmetadata> |