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author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2009-02-12 15:26:48 +0000 |
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committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2009-02-12 15:26:48 +0000 |
commit | 8e6f58086d0f735faa0d04780e558e2b3e03dce6 (patch) | |
tree | 2b0c0e8b9f15893cd77966b78a4ee818db6424cc /pkgs/development/libraries/mpfr | |
parent | 9e2fb3fe06c8970a9deb057cccb4bbdf687dca2a (diff) |
Update description for MPFR, now a GNU project.
svn path=/nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates/; revision=14040
Diffstat (limited to 'pkgs/development/libraries/mpfr')
-rw-r--r-- | pkgs/development/libraries/mpfr/default.nix | 16 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/mpfr/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/mpfr/default.nix index b3af9f14d81ab..a6f6f6ff334ab 100644 --- a/pkgs/development/libraries/mpfr/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/mpfr/default.nix @@ -15,6 +15,20 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation { meta = { homepage = http://www.mpfr.org/; - description = "Library for multiple-precision floating-point arithmetic"; + description = "GNU MPFR, a library for multiple-precision floating-point arithmetic"; + + longDescription = '' + 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). + ''; + + license = "LGPLv2+"; }; } |