From a22dc0c49aed0babe16ef92ae24847b343b7eb02 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ludovic Courtès Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 16:14:23 +0200 Subject: Synchronize package descriptions with the Womb. * gnu/packages/algebra.scm, gnu/packages/aspell.scm, gnu/packages/autotools.scm, gnu/packages/base.scm, gnu/packages/bash.scm, gnu/packages/bison.scm, gnu/packages/cdrom.scm, gnu/packages/cflow.scm, gnu/packages/compression.scm, gnu/packages/cpio.scm, gnu/packages/cppi.scm, gnu/packages/ddrescue.scm, gnu/packages/dejagnu.scm, gnu/packages/ed.scm, gnu/packages/emacs.scm, gnu/packages/fdisk.scm, gnu/packages/freeipmi.scm, gnu/packages/gawk.scm, gnu/packages/gcal.scm, gnu/packages/gcc.scm, gnu/packages/gdb.scm, gnu/packages/gdbm.scm, gnu/packages/gettext.scm, gnu/packages/ghostscript.scm, gnu/packages/global.scm, gnu/packages/gnunet.scm, gnu/packages/gnupg.scm, gnu/packages/gnutls.scm, gnu/packages/gperf.scm, gnu/packages/gprolog.scm, gnu/packages/groff.scm, gnu/packages/grub.scm, gnu/packages/gsasl.scm, gnu/packages/guile.scm, gnu/packages/gv.scm, gnu/packages/help2man.scm, gnu/packages/idutils.scm, gnu/packages/indent.scm, gnu/packages/less.scm, gnu/packages/libidn.scm, gnu/packages/libsigsegv.scm, gnu/packages/libunistring.scm, gnu/packages/lightning.scm, gnu/packages/linux.scm, gnu/packages/lsh.scm, gnu/packages/m4.scm, gnu/packages/mail.scm, gnu/packages/maths.scm, gnu/packages/multiprecision.scm, gnu/packages/nano.scm, gnu/packages/ncurses.scm, gnu/packages/nettle.scm, gnu/packages/ocrad.scm, gnu/packages/oggvorbis.scm, gnu/packages/parted.scm, gnu/packages/plotutils.scm, gnu/packages/pth.scm, gnu/packages/readline.scm, gnu/packages/recutils.scm, gnu/packages/rush.scm, gnu/packages/scheme.scm, gnu/packages/screen.scm, gnu/packages/shishi.scm, gnu/packages/smalltalk.scm, gnu/packages/system.scm, gnu/packages/texinfo.scm, gnu/packages/time.scm, gnu/packages/unrtf.scm, gnu/packages/version-control.scm, gnu/packages/wdiff.scm, gnu/packages/wget.scm, gnu/packages/which.scm, gnu/packages/xnee.scm, gnu/packages/zile.scm: Change value of the 'description' field to that of the Womb. --- gnu/packages/multiprecision.scm | 43 +++++++++-------------------------------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-) (limited to 'gnu/packages/multiprecision.scm') diff --git a/gnu/packages/multiprecision.scm b/gnu/packages/multiprecision.scm index 16383d1ec1..6692d26b59 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/multiprecision.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/multiprecision.scm @@ -46,25 +46,11 @@ "--enable-cxx"))) (synopsis "Multiple-precision arithmetic library") (description - "GMP is a free library for arbitrary precision arithmetic, operating on -signed integers, rational numbers, and floating point numbers. There is no -practical limit to the precision except the ones implied by the available -memory in the machine GMP runs on. GMP has a rich set of functions, and the -functions have a regular interface. - -The main target applications for GMP are cryptography applications and -research, Internet security applications, algebra systems, computational -algebra research, etc. - -GMP is carefully designed to be as fast as possible, both for small operands -and for huge operands. The speed is achieved by using fullwords as the basic -arithmetic type, by using fast algorithms, with highly optimised assembly -code for the most common inner loops for a lot of CPUs, and by a general -emphasis on speed. - -GMP is faster than any other bignum library. The advantage for GMP increases -with the operand sizes for many operations, since GMP uses asymptotically -faster algorithms.") + "GMP is a library for arbitrary precision arithmetic, operating on +signed integers, rational numbers and floating point numbers. The precision +is only limited by the available memory. The library is highly optimized, +with a design focus on execution speed. It is aimed at use in, for example, +cryptography and computational algebra.") (license lgpl3+) (home-page "http://gmplib.org/"))) @@ -83,14 +69,8 @@ faster algorithms.") (propagated-inputs `(("gmp" ,gmp))) ; refers to (synopsis "C library for arbitrary precision floating-point arithmetic") (description - "The GNU MPFR library is a C library for multiple-precision -floating-point computations with correct rounding. MPFR is based on the GMP -multiple-precision library. - -The main goal of MPFR is to provide a library for multiple-precision -floating-point computation which is both efficient and has a well-defined -semantics. It copies the good ideas from the ANSI/IEEE-754 standard for -double-precision floating-point arithmetic (53-bit mantissa).") + "MPFR is a C library for performing multiple-precision, floating-point +computations with correct rounding.") (license lgpl3+) (home-page "http://www.mpfr.org/"))) @@ -110,12 +90,7 @@ double-precision floating-point arithmetic (53-bit mantissa).") ("mpfr" ,mpfr))) (synopsis "C library for arbitrary precision complex arithmetic") (description - "GNU MPC is a C library for the arithmetic of complex numbers with -arbitrarily high precision and correct rounding of the result. It extends -the principles of the IEEE-754 standard for fixed precision real floating -point numbers to complex numbers, providing well-defined semantics for -every operation. At the same time, speed of operation at high precision -is a major design goal. The library is built upon and follows the same -principles as GNU MPFR.") + "GNU MPC is a C library for performing arithmetic on complex numbers. +It supports arbitrarily high precision and it correctly rounds the results.") (license lgpl3+) (home-page "http://mpc.multiprecision.org/"))) -- cgit v1.2.3