nixpkgs/pkgs/development/libraries/nettle/default.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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{ fetchurl, stdenv, gmp, gnum4 }:
stdenv.mkDerivation (rec {
name = "nettle-2.7.1";
src = fetchurl {
url = "mirror://gnu/nettle/${name}.tar.gz";
sha256 = "0h2vap31yvi1a438d36lg1r1nllfx3y19r4rfxv7slrm6kafnwdw";
};
buildInputs = [ gnum4 ];
propagatedBuildInputs = [ gmp ];
doCheck = (stdenv.system != "i686-cygwin" && !stdenv.isDarwin);
enableParallelBuilding = true;
# It doesn't build otherwise
dontDisableStatic = true;
patches = stdenv.lib.optional (stdenv.system == "i686-cygwin")
./cygwin.patch;
meta = {
description = "Cryptographic library";
longDescription = ''
Nettle is a cryptographic library that is designed to fit
easily in more or less any context: In crypto toolkits for
object-oriented languages (C++, Python, Pike, ...), in
applications like LSH or GNUPG, or even in kernel space. In
most contexts, you need more than the basic cryptographic
algorithms, you also need some way to keep track of available
algorithms, their properties and variants. You often have
some algorithm selection process, often dictated by a protocol
you want to implement.
And as the requirements of applications differ in subtle and
not so subtle ways, an API that fits one application well can
be a pain to use in a different context. And that is why
there are so many different cryptographic libraries around.
Nettle tries to avoid this problem by doing one thing, the
low-level crypto stuff, and providing a simple but general
interface to it. In particular, Nettle doesn't do algorithm
selection. It doesn't do memory allocation. It doesn't do any
I/O.
'';
license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl2Plus;
homepage = http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/;
maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.ludo ];
platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.all;
};
}
//
stdenv.lib.optionalAttrs stdenv.isSunOS {
# Make sure the right <gmp.h> is found, and not the incompatible
# /usr/include/mp.h from OpenSolaris. See
# <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/hydra-users/2012-08/msg00000.html>
# for details.
configureFlags = [ "--with-include-path=${gmp}/include" ];
})