nixpkgs/pkgs/development/libraries/ming/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, flex, bison, freetype, zlib, libpng
, perl }:
stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
name = "ming-0.4.0.rc1";
src = fetchurl {
url = "mirror://sourceforge/ming/${name}.tar.bz2";
sha256 = "19brcqh4mqav5gsnmnb6j4gv9s0rmkg71657ck17xj8fdklq38y7";
};
# We don't currently build the Python, Perl, PHP, etc. bindings.
# Perl is needed for the test suite, though.
buildInputs = [ flex bison freetype zlib libpng perl ];
doCheck = true;
meta = {
description = "Library for generating Flash `.swf' files";
longDescription = ''
Ming is a library for generating Macromedia Flash files (.swf),
written in C, and includes useful utilities for working with
.swf files. It has wrappers that allow it to be used in C++,
PHP, Python, Ruby, and Perl.
'';
homepage = http://www.libming.org/;
license = stdenv.lib.licenses.lgpl2Plus;
};
}