nixpkgs/pkgs/development/libraries/readline/readline6.nix
Bjørn Forsman c9baba9212 Fix many package descriptions
(My OCD kicked in today...)

Remove repeated package names, capitalize first word, remove trailing
periods and move overlong descriptions to longDescription.

I also simplified some descriptions as well, when they were particularly
long or technical, often based on Arch Linux' package descriptions.

I've tried to stay away from generated expressions (and I think I
succeeded).

Some specifics worth mentioning:
 * cron, has "Vixie Cron" in its description. The "Vixie" part is not
   mentioned anywhere else. I kept it in a parenthesis at the end of the
   description.

 * ctags description started with "Exuberant Ctags ...", and the
   "exuberant" part is not mentioned elsewhere. Kept it in a parenthesis
   at the end of description.

 * nix has the description "The Nix Deployment System". Since that
   doesn't really say much what it is/does (especially after removing
   the package name!), I changed that to "Powerful package manager that
   makes package management reliable and reproducible" (borrowed from
   nixos.org).

 * Tons of "GNU Foo, Foo is a [the important bits]" descriptions
   is changed to just [the important bits]. If the package name doesn't
   contain GNU I don't think it's needed to say it in the description
   either.
2014-08-24 22:31:37 +02:00

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Nix

{ fetchurl, stdenv, ncurses }:
stdenv.mkDerivation (rec {
name = "readline-6.2";
src = fetchurl {
url = "mirror://gnu/readline/${name}.tar.gz";
sha256 = "10ckm2bd2rkxhvdmj7nmbsylmihw0abwcsnxf8y27305183rd9kr";
};
propagatedBuildInputs = [ncurses];
patchFlags = "-p0";
patches =
[ ./link-against-ncurses.patch
./no-arch_only.patch
]
++
(let
patch = nr: sha256:
fetchurl {
url = "mirror://gnu/readline/${name}-patches/readline62-${nr}";
inherit sha256;
};
in
import ./readline-6.2-patches.nix patch);
meta = {
description = "Library for interactive line editing";
longDescription = ''
The GNU Readline library provides a set of functions for use by
applications that allow users to edit command lines as they are
typed in. Both Emacs and vi editing modes are available. The
Readline library includes additional functions to maintain a
list of previously-entered command lines, to recall and perhaps
reedit those lines, and perform csh-like history expansion on
previous commands.
The history facilites are also placed into a separate library,
the History library, as part of the build process. The History
library may be used without Readline in applications which
desire its capabilities.
'';
homepage = http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/readline/;
license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl3Plus;
maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.ludo ];
};
}
//
# Don't run the native `strip' when cross-compiling.
(if (stdenv ? cross)
then { dontStrip = true; }
else { }))