[commit: packages/bytestring] ghc-head: Mention ShortByteString in the package description (9c3ee74)
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Repository : ssh://git at git.haskell.org/bytestring
On branch : ghc-head
Link : http://git.haskell.org/packages/bytestring.git/commitdiff/9c3ee746cf1d95ea67d46fae09c83cdce52683d2
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commit 9c3ee746cf1d95ea67d46fae09c83cdce52683d2
Author: Duncan Coutts <duncan at community.haskell.org>
Date: Sat Oct 5 20:42:44 2013 +0100
Mention ShortByteString in the package description
Also update a couple more copyright dates and fix a doc module name.
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9c3ee746cf1d95ea67d46fae09c83cdce52683d2
Data/ByteString/Short/Internal.hs | 2 +-
bytestring.cabal | 8 ++++++--
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Data/ByteString/Short/Internal.hs b/Data/ByteString/Short/Internal.hs
index 8d1195e..4898c78 100644
--- a/Data/ByteString/Short/Internal.hs
+++ b/Data/ByteString/Short/Internal.hs
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
{-# OPTIONS_HADDOCK hide #-}
-- |
--- Module : Data.ByteString.Short
+-- Module : Data.ByteString.Short.Internal
-- Copyright : (c) Duncan Coutts 2012-2013
-- License : BSD-style
--
diff --git a/bytestring.cabal b/bytestring.cabal
index f8e36b9..208cffc 100644
--- a/bytestring.cabal
+++ b/bytestring.cabal
@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ Description:
in an ad-hoc way by repeated concatenation. This is ideal for fast
serialisation or pretty printing.
.
+ There is also a 'ShortByteString' type which has a lower memory overhead
+ and can can be converted to or from a 'ByteString', but supports very few
+ other operations. It is suitable for keeping many short strings in memory.
+ .
'ByteString's are not designed for Unicode. For Unicode strings you should
use the 'Text' type from the @text@ package.
.
@@ -40,10 +44,10 @@ License: BSD3
License-file: LICENSE
Category: Data
Copyright: Copyright (c) Don Stewart 2005-2009,
- (c) Duncan Coutts 2006-2012,
+ (c) Duncan Coutts 2006-2013,
(c) David Roundy 2003-2005,
(c) Jasper Van der Jeugt 2010,
- (c) Simon Meier 2010-2011.
+ (c) Simon Meier 2010-2013.
Author: Don Stewart,
Duncan Coutts
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