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| <!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> |
