nixpkgs/pkgs/development/tools/misc/gperf/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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{stdenv, fetchurl}:
stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
name = "gperf-3.0.4";
src = fetchurl {
url = "mirror://gnu/gperf/${name}.tar.gz";
sha256 = "0gnnm8iqcl52m8iha3sxrzrl9mcyhg7lfrhhqgdn4zj00ji14wbn";
};
meta = {
description = "Perfect hash function generator";
longDescription = ''
GNU gperf is a perfect hash function generator. For a given
list of strings, it produces a hash function and hash table, in
form of C or C++ code, for looking up a value depending on the
input string. The hash function is perfect, which means that
the hash table has no collisions, and the hash table lookup
needs a single string comparison only.
GNU gperf is highly customizable. There are options for
generating C or C++ code, for emitting switch statements or
nested ifs instead of a hash table, and for tuning the algorithm
employed by gperf.
'';
license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl3Plus;
homepage = http://www.gnu.org/software/gperf/;
};
}