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diff --git a/dev-haskell/text/metadata.xml b/dev-haskell/text/metadata.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..639b8acc5c83 --- /dev/null +++ b/dev-haskell/text/metadata.xml @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> +<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> +<pkgmetadata> + <herd>haskell</herd> + <longdescription> + + An efficient packed, immutable Unicode text type (both strict and + lazy), with a powerful loop fusion optimization framework. + + The 'Text' type represents Unicode character strings, in a time and + space-efficient manner. This package provides text processing + capabilities that are optimized for performance critical use, both + in terms of large data quantities and high speed. + + The 'Text' type provides character-encoding, type-safe case + conversion via whole-string case conversion functions. It also + provides a range of functions for converting 'Text' values to and from + 'ByteStrings', using several standard encodings. + + Efficient locale-sensitive support for text IO is also supported. + + These modules are intended to be imported qualified, to avoid name + clashes with Prelude functions, e.g. + + > import qualified Data.Text as T + + To use an extended and very rich family of functions for working + with Unicode text (including normalization, regular expressions, + non-standard encodings, text breaking, and locales), see + the @text-icu@ package: + <http://hackage.haskell.org/package/text-icu> + + </longdescription> + <use> + <flag name="developer">operate in developer mode</flag> + </use> + <upstream> + <remote-id type="github">bos/text</remote-id> + </upstream> +</pkgmetadata> |