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diff --git a/dev-haskell/parsec1/metadata.xml b/dev-haskell/parsec1/metadata.xml index 927852cac2d5..937381521944 100644 --- a/dev-haskell/parsec1/metadata.xml +++ b/dev-haskell/parsec1/metadata.xml @@ -5,30 +5,4 @@ <email>haskell@gentoo.org</email> <name>Gentoo Haskell</name> </maintainer> - <longdescription> - Parsec is designed from scratch as an industrial-strength parser - library. It is simple, safe, well documented (on the package - homepage), has extensive libraries and good error messages, - and is also fast. - - This package is the core haskell98 part of the parsec2 - package, intended to preserve its simplicity and portability. - - Note, that the module names overlap with those of parsec from the Haskell - Platform, therefore I do not recommend to unconditionally use parsec1 (or - parsec2 and parsec3) as dependency in cabal files of packages for hackage. - But you may want to develop your code using these limited and portable - parsec1 functions and finally change the dependency from parsec1 to parsec - in order to avoid module ambiguities for users just installing your package. - Your own module ambiguities are best avoided by hiding packages. - - This version only differs from the pervious one by improved error messages - for try (positions are not reset), tokens and thus string (longer - unexpected strings are now reported to match the error position). - The notFollowedBy-parser was generalized (as in parsec-3) so - characters in messages are now shown in single instead of double - quotes. - Also (as since parsec-3.1.2) lookAhead no longer consumes tokens on success - (so that the many-parser can detect this). - </longdescription> </pkgmetadata> |