The Gywdion Dylan compiler that was packaged here is old and this
package no longer builds. The Gwydion Dylan compiler is no longer
maintained, and has been replaced by the Open Dylan compiler which
is already packaged in Nix (opendylan).
(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.
The following packages are broken with GHC 7.8.3:
- filesystem-conduit version 1.0.0.2
- ghc-events-analyze version 0.2.0
- haskelldb version 2.2.2
- haskell-mpi version 1.2.1
- haxr-th version 3000.5
- hoauth version 0.3.5
- holy-project version 0.1.1.0
- hoogle version 4.2.32
- hspread version 0.3.3
- instant-generics version 0.4
- ivor version 0.1.14.1
- jmacro-rpc-happstack version 0.3
- lambdacube-engine version 0.2.4
- language-c-inline version 0.6.0.0
- lockfree-queue version 0.2.3
- monad-peel version 0.1.1
- network-transport-tests version 0.1.0.1
- poppler version 0.12.3
- profiteur version 0.1.2.1
- prolog-graph-lib version 0.2.0.1
- semigroupoid-extras version 4.0
- setlocale version 0.0.3
- sized-types version 0.5.0
- snaplet-postgresql-simple version 0.5
- snap-loader-dynamic version 0.10.0.2
- uhc git version 20120502
- uniqueid version 0.1.1
- unix-process-conduit version 0.2.2.3
- vado version 0.0.1
- vcsgui version 0.0.4
- xml-html-conduit-lens version 0.3.2.0
The following packages depend on one of the broken ones above:
- hoodle-builder version 0.3
- hoodle-core version 0.14
- hoodle-extra version 0.1
- hoodle-parser version 0.3
- hoodle-render version 0.4
- hoodle-types version 0.3
- hoodle version 0.3
- kansas-lava version 0.2.4
- liblastfm version 0.4.0.0
- prolog-graph version 0.1.0.2
- vacuum-cairo version 0.5
- wcwidth version 0.0.2