nixpkgs/pkgs/development/tools/parsing/bison/3.x.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, m4, perl }:
stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
name = "bison-3.0.2";
src = fetchurl {
url = "mirror://gnu/bison/${name}.tar.gz";
sha256 = "1vc17y6242jlwp0gdj7wsim3nvc1ws7q3j0v3065nz8g9hd9vwnd";
};
nativeBuildInputs = [ m4 perl ];
propagatedBuildInputs = [ m4 ];
meta = {
homepage = "http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/";
description = "Yacc-compatible parser generator";
license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl3Plus;
longDescription = ''
Bison is a general-purpose parser generator that converts an
annotated context-free grammar into an LALR(1) or GLR parser for
that grammar. Once you are proficient with Bison, you can use
it to develop a wide range of language parsers, from those used
in simple desk calculators to complex programming languages.
Bison is upward compatible with Yacc: all properly-written Yacc
grammars ought to work with Bison with no change. Anyone
familiar with Yacc should be able to use Bison with little
trouble. You need to be fluent in C or C++ programming in order
to use Bison.
'';
maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.simons ];
platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
};
passthru = { glrSupport = true; };
}