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authordanfe <danfe@FreeBSD.org>2008-08-07 20:25:26 +0800
committerdanfe <danfe@FreeBSD.org>2008-08-07 20:25:26 +0800
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- Canonicalize Makefile header
- Clarify COMMENT and port description - Assume maintainership
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-rw-r--r--lang/nickle/Makefile10
-rw-r--r--lang/nickle/pkg-descr18
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/lang/nickle/Makefile b/lang/nickle/Makefile
index f070e662de85..38c73b203455 100644
--- a/lang/nickle/Makefile
+++ b/lang/nickle/Makefile
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-# New ports collection makefile for: nickle
-# Date created: 16 April 2001
-# Whom: Christopher Elkins <chrise@scardini.com>
+# New ports collection makefile for: Nickle
+# Date created: 16 April 2001
+# Whom: Christopher Elkins <chrise@scardini.com>
#
# $FreeBSD$
#
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ PORTVERSION= 2.56
CATEGORIES= lang
MASTER_SITES= http://www.nickle.org/release/
-MAINTAINER= ports@FreeBSD.org
-COMMENT= A desk calculator language
+MAINTAINER= danfe@FreeBSD.org
+COMMENT= A numeric oriented programming language
USE_GMAKE= yes
GNU_CONFIGURE= yes
diff --git a/lang/nickle/pkg-descr b/lang/nickle/pkg-descr
index 371b17e3c11f..ac20410ae8a3 100644
--- a/lang/nickle/pkg-descr
+++ b/lang/nickle/pkg-descr
@@ -1,6 +1,14 @@
-Nickle is a desk calculator language with powerful programming
-and scripting capabilities. Nickle supports a variety of datatypes,
-especially arbitrary precision numbers. The input language vaguely
-resembles C.
+Nickle is a programming language based prototyping environment with powerful
+programming and scripting capabilities. Nickle supports a variety of
+datatypes, especially arbitrary precision numbers. The programming language
+vaguely resembles C. Some things in C which do not translate easily are
+different, some design choices have been made differently, and a very few
+features are simply missing.
-WWW: http://www.nickle.org/release/
+Nickle provides the functionality of Unix bc, dc, and expr in much-improved
+form. It is also an ideal environment for prototyping complex algorithms.
+Nickle's scripting capabilities make it a nice replacement for spreadsheets
+in some applications, and its numeric features nicely complement the limited
+numeric functionality of text-oriented languages such as AWK and Perl.
+
+WWW: http://www.nickle.org/