From 8e6f58086d0f735faa0d04780e558e2b3e03dce6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:26:48 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update description for MPFR, now a GNU project. svn path=/nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates/; revision=14040 --- pkgs/development/libraries/mpfr/default.nix | 16 +++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/mpfr/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/mpfr/default.nix index b3af9f14d81..a6f6f6ff334 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+"; }; }