nixpkgs/pkgs/development/interpreters
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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acl2 * "ensureDir" -> "mkdir -p". "ensureDir" is a rather pointless 2012-01-18 20:16:00 +00:00
angelscript Update Angelscript 2014-08-03 22:29:41 +04:00
clisp clisp_2_44_1: update from 2.44.1 to 2.49 2014-03-14 11:16:56 +01:00
clojure Clojure: bump to 1.6.0. 2014-06-10 11:46:05 +02:00
dart Adjusted to point to version URL (hosted by me -- had to). 2013-04-17 16:54:03 +02:00
elixir elixir: bump to 0.15.1 2014-08-17 14:10:51 +02:00
erlang Erlang R17: Bump to 17.1. 2014-08-12 13:47:38 +02:00
falcon More description fixes 2013-10-06 12:01:38 +02:00
groovy groovy: update from 1.7.1 to 2.3.6 and adopt it 2014-08-07 23:41:04 +02:00
guile Fix many package descriptions 2014-08-24 22:31:37 +02:00
io Update Io lang to version 2013.12.04 2014-01-14 15:07:31 +01:00
j * "ensureDir" -> "mkdir -p". "ensureDir" is a rather pointless 2012-01-18 20:16:00 +00:00
jruby jruby: Update from 1.6.5.1 to 1.7.12 2014-04-22 19:20:33 +02:00
kona Update Kona/fix its build 2012-04-12 07:12:07 +00:00
love Turn some license strings into lib.licenses values 2014-07-28 11:31:14 +02:00
lua-4 Mark a bunch of packages as broken or not supported on Darwin 2014-08-08 17:59:02 +02:00
lua-5 lua-5: don't restrict the platforms which can build this package 2014-08-09 15:04:44 +02:00
luajit luajit: support Darwin builds 2014-05-10 13:50:49 +03:00
lush Adding Lush: Lisp Universal SHell 2013-07-30 15:20:46 +04:00
maude Fix many package descriptions 2014-08-24 22:31:37 +02:00
octave Updating octave to 3.8.1 2014-07-31 10:11:18 +02:00
perl perl-5.8: Remove 2014-08-21 16:54:29 +02:00
php Fix many package descriptions 2014-08-24 22:31:37 +02:00
picolisp * "ensureDir" -> "mkdir -p". "ensureDir" is a rather pointless 2012-01-18 20:16:00 +00:00
pure pure: fix build with llvm 3.3 2013-10-09 21:23:37 +02:00
pypy/2.3 Fix many package descriptions 2014-08-24 22:31:37 +02:00
pyrex Fix Pyrex build 2012-07-18 09:50:36 -04:00
python include ssl with python2.6 as is the case with 2.7 2014-08-12 13:33:23 +02:00
racket Update racket to 6.0.1 2014-06-02 19:42:15 +02:00
rakudo Add Rakudo Star (closes #2054) 2014-06-10 18:12:33 -05:00
rascal Drop unnecessary setting of java.home 2014-01-25 03:04:46 +01:00
regina Adding Regina-REXX interpreter 2011-09-02 08:05:51 +00:00
renpy Turn some license strings into lib.licenses values 2014-07-28 11:31:14 +02:00
ruby rubyLibs.nokogiri: fix build 2014-08-24 18:33:47 +02:00
scheme48 Update xonotic to 0.7. 2013-11-21 09:41:01 +01:00
scsh Add packages scsh, The Scheme Shell 2009-11-07 11:17:53 +00:00
spidermonkey Merge #1187 into p/stdenv 2014-05-29 22:16:07 +02:00
supercollider Revert "Remove obsolete jackaudio version 1." 2014-07-31 12:52:29 +02:00
tcl tcl: update to 8.5.15 2014-01-25 08:45:56 +08:00
xulrunner firefox: Build without xulrunner 2014-07-23 17:28:36 +02:00