wok-current rev 11723
added description files for some packages starting with a thru b
| author | Samuel Trassare <samuel_trassare@yahoo.com> |
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| date | Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800 (2012-02-20) |
| parents | a91f4b450f79 |
| children | 2e7585c1b74c |
| files | acl/description.txt alsa-lib/description.txt apache/description.txt apr-util/description.txt apr/description.txt aspell/description.txt atk/description.txt atkmm/description.txt audiofile/description.txt autoconf/description.txt babl/description.txt bash/description.txt bc/description.txt binutils/description.txt bison/description.txt boinc/description.txt busybox/description.txt bzip2/description.txt maxima/description.txt slitaz-boot-scripts/description.txt |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/acl/description.txt Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,1 @@ 1.4 +This package contains commands for Manipulating POSIX Access Control Lists.
2.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 2.2 +++ b/alsa-lib/description.txt Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800 2.3 @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ 2.4 +The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) provides audio and MIDI 2.5 +functionality to the Linux operating system. This package provides the ALSA 2.6 +libraries.
3.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 3.2 +++ b/apache/description.txt Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800 3.3 @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ 3.4 +The Apache HTTP Server is an open-source HTTP server for modern operating 3.5 +systems including UNIX, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS/X and Netware. The goal of 3.6 +this project is to provide a secure, efficient and extensible server that 3.7 +provides HTTP services observing the current HTTP standards. Apache has been the 3.8 +most popular web server on the Internet since April of 1996.
4.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 4.2 +++ b/apr-util/description.txt Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800 4.3 @@ -0,0 +1,1 @@ 4.4 +APR-util provides a number of helpful abstractions on top of APR.
5.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 5.2 +++ b/apr/description.txt Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800 5.3 @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ 5.4 +The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project is to create and 5.5 +maintain software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface 5.6 +to underlying platform-specific implementations. The primary goal is to provide 5.7 +an API to which software developers may code and be assured of predictable if 5.8 +not identical behaviour regardless of the platform on which their software is 5.9 +built, relieving them of the need to code special-case conditions to work around 5.10 +or take advantage of platform-specific deficiencies or features.
6.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 6.2 +++ b/aspell/description.txt Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800 6.3 @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ 6.4 +GNU Aspell is a Free and Open Source spell checker. It can either be used as a 6.5 +library or as an independent spell checker. Its main feature is that it does a 6.6 +superior job of suggesting possible replacements for a misspelled word than just 6.7 +about any other spell checker out there for the English language.
7.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 7.2 +++ b/atk/description.txt Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800 7.3 @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ 7.4 +The accessibility tool kit contains the atk library. This is useful for allowing 7.5 +accessibility solutions to be available for all gtk+-2 and gtk+-3 applications.
8.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 8.2 +++ b/atkmm/description.txt Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800 8.3 @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ 8.4 +atkmm is the official C++ interface for the ATK accessibility toolkit library. 8.5 +It may be used, for instance, by user interfaces implemented with gtkmm.
9.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 9.2 +++ b/audiofile/description.txt Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800 9.3 @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ 9.4 +The Audio File Library handles reading and writing audio files in many common 9.5 +formats. 9.6 + 9.7 +Key goals of the Audio File Library are file format transparency and data format 9.8 +transparency. The same calls for opening a file, accessing and manipulating 9.9 +audio metadata (e.g. sample rate, sample format, textual information, MIDI 9.10 +parameters), and reading and writing sample data will work with any supported 9.11 +audio file format.
10.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 10.2 +++ b/autoconf/description.txt Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800 10.3 @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ 10.4 +Autoconf is an extensible package of M4 macros that produce shell scripts to 10.5 +automatically configure software source code packages. These scripts can adapt 10.6 +the packages to many kinds of UNIX-like systems without manual user 10.7 +intervention. Autoconf creates a configuration script for a package from a 10.8 +template file that lists the operating system features that the package can use, 10.9 +in the form of M4 macro calls.
11.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 11.2 +++ b/babl/description.txt Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800 11.3 @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ 11.4 +babl is a dynamic, any to any, pixel format translation library. 11.5 + 11.6 +It allows converting between different methods of storing pixels known as pixel 11.7 +formats that have different bitdepths and other data representations, color 11.8 +models and component permutations.
12.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 12.2 +++ b/bash/description.txt Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800 12.3 @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ 12.4 +Bash is a shell, or command language interpreter, for the GNU operating system. 12.5 +Bash is an sh-compatible shell that incorporates useful features from the Korn 12.6 +shell (ksh) and C shell (csh). It is intended to conform to the IEEE POSIX 12.7 +P1003.2/ISO 9945.2 Shell and Tools standard. It offers functional improvements 12.8 +over sh for both programming and interactive use. In addition, most sh scripts 12.9 +can be run by Bash without modification.
13.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 13.2 +++ b/bc/description.txt Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800 13.3 @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ 13.4 +bc is an arbitrary precision numeric processing language. Syntax is similar to 13.5 +C, but differs in many substantial areas. It supports interactive execution of 13.6 +statements. bc is a utility included in the POSIX P1003.2/D11 draft standard.
14.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 14.2 +++ b/binutils/description.txt Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800 14.3 @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ 14.4 +The GNU Binutils are a collection of binary tools. The main ones are: 14.5 + 14.6 + ld - the GNU linker. 14.7 + as - the GNU assembler.
15.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 15.2 +++ b/bison/description.txt Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800 15.3 @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ 15.4 +Bison is a general-purpose parser generator that converts an annotated context- 15.5 +free grammar into a deterministic LR or generalized LR (GLR) parser employing 15.6 +LALR(1) parser tables.
16.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 16.2 +++ b/boinc/description.txt Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800 16.3 @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ 16.4 +Use the idle time on your computer (Windows, Mac, or Linux) to cure diseases, 16.5 +study global warming, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific 16.6 +research.
17.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 17.2 +++ b/busybox/description.txt Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800 17.3 @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ 17.4 +BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single 17.5 +small executable. It provides replacements for most of the utilities you 17.6 +usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc. The utilities in BusyBox 17.7 +generally have fewer options than their full-featured GNU cousins; however, 17.8 +the options that are included provide the expected functionality and behave 17.9 +very much like their GNU counterparts. BusyBox provides a fairly complete 17.10 +environment for any small or embedded system.
18.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 18.2 +++ b/bzip2/description.txt Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800 18.3 @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ 18.4 +bzip2 is a freely available, patent free, high-quality data compressor. It 18.5 +typically compresses files to within 10% to 15% of the best available techniques 18.6 +(the PPM family of statistical compressors), whilst being around twice as fast 18.7 +at compression and six times faster at decompression.
19.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 19.2 +++ b/maxima/description.txt Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800 19.3 @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ 19.4 +Maxima is a system for the manipulation of symbolic and numerical expressions, 19.5 +including differentiation, integration, Taylor series, Laplace transforms, 19.6 +ordinary differential equations, systems of linear equations, polynomials, and 19.7 +sets, lists, vectors, matrices, and tensors. Maxima yields high precision 19.8 +numeric results by using exact fractions, arbitrary precision integers, and 19.9 +variable precision floating point numbers. Maxima can plot functions and data in 19.10 +two and three dimensions.