(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.
fetchpatch is fetchurl that determinizes the patch.
Some parts of generated patches change from time to time, e.g. see #1983 and
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.nixos/12815
Using fetchpatch should prevent the hash from changing.
Conflicts (auto-solved):
pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/gitit/default.nix
This is a small wrapper around fetchzip. It allows you to say:
src = fetchGitHub {
owner = "NixOS";
repo = "nix";
rev = "924e19341a5ee488634bc9ce1ea9758ac496afc3"; # or a tag
sha256 = "1ld1jc26wy0smkg63chvdzsppfw6zy1ykf3mmc50hkx397wcbl09";
};
stdenv (on linux) depends on gawk, readline and similar are useless for non-interactive usage.
Close#1596. Original patch was almost completely rewritten by vcunat.
On darwin we always specify whether to use readline, so it isn't always picked as reported.
It's to separate from other changes coming from master.
Conflicts:
pkgs/development/libraries/glibc/2.18/common.nix (taking both changes)
pkgs/development/libraries/ncurses/5_4.nix (deleted)
From NEWS file (version 3.1.7):
* fixed compilation bugs in MacOsX systems (thanks to
Trevor Spiteri)
* language definition for Lilypond (thanks to Federico Bruni)
* language definition for R statistics programming language
* language definition for ISLISP (thanks to Christian Jullien)
* improved Erlang definition file (thanks to Erik Søe Sørensen)
* new output format: ESC 256 ascii code (thanks to
Xavier-Emmanuel Vincent).
(It still needs boost 1.53 for all tests to pass.)
unoconv is a tool that converts between any document format supported by
LibreOffice/OpenOffice.
Example of how to convert an .odt file to .pdf:
unoconv -f pdf some-file.odt
Homepage: http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/unoconv/
Implementation notes:
unoconv must use the same python version as libreoffice (unless it will
not be able to load the pyuno module from libreoffice). And because we
recently switched to libreoffice 4.x, which uses python3, I had to
include unoconv-python3.patch. The patch comes from upstream unoconv.git
repo, so it will be included in the next release.
BaseX is a very fast and light-weight, yet powerful XML database and
XPath/XQuery processor, including support for the latest W3C Full Text
and Update Recommendations. It supports large XML instances and offers a
highly interactive front-end (basexgui). Apart from two local standalone
modes, BaseX offers a client/server architecture.
Homepage: http://basex.org/
Implementation notes:
- I'm using the pre-built java package (because it's simple)
- I copied the basex.svg icon file from the Ubuntu package because I
couldn't find it anywhere else. It's 9.3 KiB.
The jing expression now creates its own "jing" wrapper script, so there
is no need for jing_tools anymore.
jing hasn't been updated in years, so I assume (or hope) that not many
(if any) have jing_tools in their configuration.nix. If you do, just
change it to jing and it should behave the same.
Also add meta attributes and a wrapper for jing so that it can be
invoked directly from the shell as "jing" (similar to Debian/Ubuntu).
Trang already has such a wrapper.
There were conflicts in pkgs/development/interpreters/ruby/ruby-19.nix,
which I resolved to the best of my knowledge. I'd appreciate if some of
the ruby gurus could have a look at the outcome of my merge, though.
A little program that can be used to compare putatively similar files line
by line and field by field, ignoring small numeric differences or/and
different numeric formats.
