Re: Interest in package for pfff?

[Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>]

On Fri, Jan 01, 2016 at 09:23:25AM +0100, Pjotr Prins wrote:
> I just wrote a package for pfff. Should it go into Guix, and if so,
> what module should it belong in?  md5sum and shaxsum are part of
> coreutils. I am thinking pfff should go into gnu/packages/hash.scm.

Yeah, why not?

> 
> Pj.
> 
> (define-module (gn packages pfff)
                    ^ gnu?
>   #:use-module ((guix licenses) #:prefix license:)
>   #:use-module (guix packages)
>   #:use-module (guix download)
>   #:use-module (guix build-system cmake))
> 
> (define-public pfff
>   (package
>     (name "pfff")
>     (version "1.0")
>     (source (origin
>               (method url-fetch)
>               (uri (string-append
>                     "https://github.com/pfff/pfff/archive/v" version ".tar.gz"))
>               (sha256
>                (base32
>                 "00m553aa277iarxj6dalmklyb64r7ias49bfwzbacsfg8h3kar8m"))))
>     (build-system cmake-build-system)
>     (home-page "http://biit.cs.ut.ee/pfff/")
>     (synopsis "Probabilistic fast file fingerprinting")
>     (description
>      "Calculate a probablistic fast finger print (pfff) which
> functions as a compact digital fingerprint of a file by sampling
> randomly from the file instead of reading it in full.  Consequently,
> the computation has a flat performance characteristic, correlated with
> data variation rather than file size.")
>     (license license:bsd-3)))
> -- 
>