diff --git a/direct-sqlite.cabal b/direct-sqlite.cabal --- a/direct-sqlite.cabal +++ b/direct-sqlite.cabal @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ name: direct-sqlite -version: 2.0 +version: 2.1 build-type: Simple license: BSD3 license-file: LICENSE @@ -7,17 +7,22 @@ author: Irene Knapp maintainer: ireney.knapp@gmail.com homepage: http://ireneknapp.com/software/ -bug-reports: http://ireneknapp.com/issues/create/ +bug-reports: https://github.com/IreneKnapp/direct-sqlite/issues/new category: Database synopsis: Low-level binding to SQLite3. Includes UTF8 and BLOB support. Cabal-version: >= 1.10 Build-type: Simple description: - This package is not very different from the other SQLite3 bindings out there, but - it fixes a few deficiencies I was finding. It is not as complete as bindings-sqlite3, - but is slightly higher-level, in that it supports marshalling of data values to and - from the database. In particular, it supports strings encoded as UTF8, and BLOBs - represented as ByteStrings. + This package is not very different from the other SQLite3 bindings out + there, but it fixes a few deficiencies I was finding. It is not as + complete as bindings-sqlite3, but is slightly higher-level, in that it + supports marshalling of data values to and from the database. In + particular, it supports strings encoded as UTF8, and BLOBs represented + as ByteStrings. + + Version 2.1 improves handling of invalid UTF-8 and changes error handling + to be more complete. It also adds a build flag to build against the system + sqlite instead of the bundled one, optionally (disabled by default). Version 2.0 uses Text for strings instead of String.