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diff --git a/dev-haskell/inspection-testing/metadata.xml b/dev-haskell/inspection-testing/metadata.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..f4d3257dab77 --- /dev/null +++ b/dev-haskell/inspection-testing/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> + Some carefully crafted libraries make promises to their + users beyond functionality and performance. + + Examples are: Fusion libraries promise intermediate data + structures to be eliminated. Generic programming libraries promise + that the generic implementation is identical to the + hand-written one. Some libraries may promise allocation-free + or branch-free code. + + Conventionally, the modus operandi in all these cases is + that the library author manually inspects the (intermediate or + final) code produced by the compiler. This is not only + tedious, but makes it very likely that some change, either + in the library itself or the surrounding eco-system, + breaks the library's promised without anyone noticing. + + This package provides a disciplined way of specifying such + properties, and have them checked by the compiler. This way, + this checking can be part of the ususal development cycle + and regressions caught early. + + See the documentation in "Test.Inspection" or the project + webpage for more examples and more information. + </longdescription> +</pkgmetadata> |