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| author |   Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org> | 2017-05-28 13:38:35 +0100 |
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| committer | Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org> | 2017-05-28 18:52:52 +0100 |
| commit | a6464b3f66ddace53dad0d7688a8773c9436d7da (patch) | |
| tree | f08d5c8d54f2cb4cbcee57eed6a76af0d58c0525 /dev-haskell/retry/metadata.xml | |
| parent | dev-haskell/text-metrics: new package, a depend of dev-haskell/stack (diff) | |
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dev-haskell/retry: new package, a depend of dev-haskell/stack
Retry combinators for monadic actions that may fail
Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.6, Repoman-2.3.2
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diff --git a/dev-haskell/retry/metadata.xml b/dev-haskell/retry/metadata.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..8df6740dd53a --- /dev/null +++ b/dev-haskell/retry/metadata.xml @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +<?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> + This package exposes combinators that can wrap arbitrary + monadic actions. They run the action and potentially retry + running it with some configurable delay for a configurable + number of times. + The purpose is to make it easier to work with IO and + especially network IO actions that often experience temporary + failure and warrant retrying of the original action. For + example, a database query may time out for a while, in which + case we should hang back for a bit and retry the query instead + of simply raising an exception. + </longdescription> +</pkgmetadata> |