nixpkgs/pkgs/development/tools/misc/swig/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, boost, tcl }:
stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
name = "swig-1.3.40";
src = fetchurl {
url = "mirror://sourceforge/swig/${name}.tar.gz";
sha256 = "02dc8g8wy75nd2is1974rl24c6mdl0ai1vszs1xpg9nd7dlv6i8r";
};
doCheck = true;
# 'make check' uses boost and tcl
buildInputs = stdenv.lib.optionals doCheck [ boost tcl ];
configureFlags = stdenv.lib.optionalString stdenv.isDarwin "--disable-ccache";
meta = {
description = "Interface compiler that connects C/C++ code to higher-level languages";
longDescription = ''
SWIG is an interface compiler that connects programs written in C and
C++ with languages such as Perl, Python, Ruby, Scheme, and Tcl. It
works by taking the declarations found in C/C++ header files and using
them to generate the wrapper code that scripting languages need to
access the underlying C/C++ code. In addition, SWIG provides a variety
of customization features that let you tailor the wrapping process to
suit your application.
'';
homepage = http://swig.org/;
# Licensing is a mess: http://www.swig.org/Release/LICENSE .
license = "BSD-style";
platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.all;
maintainers = [ ];
};
}