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diff --git a/dev-haskell/bytestring-builder/metadata.xml b/dev-haskell/bytestring-builder/metadata.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..018c423e9511 --- /dev/null +++ b/dev-haskell/bytestring-builder/metadata.xml @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +<?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> + This is the bytestring builder that is debuting in bytestring-0.10.4.0, which + should be shipping with GHC 7.8, probably late in 2013. This builder has + several nice simplifications and improvements, and more out-of-box + functionality than the older blaze-builder. + + Note that this package detects which version of bytestring you are compiling + against, and if you are compiling against bytestring-0.10.4 or later, will + be an empty package. + + This package lets the new interface and implementation be used with most + older compilers without upgrading bytestring, which can be rather + problematic. In conjunction with blaze-builder-0.4 or later, which + offers an implementation of blaze-builder in terms of bytestring-builder, + this should let most people try the new interface and implementation without + causing undue compatibility problems with packages that depend on + blaze-builder. + + GHC 7.6 did debut an almost identical interface and implementation, but with + slightly different module names and organization. Trying to re-export/rename + the builder provided with 7.6 did not turn out to be very practical, because + this interface includes new functions that rely on Builder internals, + which are not exported in 7.6. Furthermore, these module names should be + deprecated in 7.10. + </longdescription> +</pkgmetadata> |