From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60419) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fYeaE-0004nT-3b for guix-patches@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jun 2018 17:36:07 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fYeaA-0005uX-Ex for guix-patches@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jun 2018 17:36:06 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:59301) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fYeaA-0005uG-AL for guix-patches@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jun 2018 17:36:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fYeaA-0006F1-30 for guix-patches@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jun 2018 17:36:02 -0400 Subject: [bug#31999] [PATCH 3/7] gnu: Add libbytesize. Resent-Message-ID: From: Pierre Neidhardt Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 23:35:23 +0200 Message-Id: <20180628213527.23318-2-ambrevar@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20180628213527.23318-1-ambrevar@gmail.com> References: <20180628213527.23318-1-ambrevar@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-patches-bounces+kyle=kyleam.com@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-patches" To: 31999@debbugs.gnu.org * gnu/package/c.scm (libbytesize): New variable. --- gnu/packages/c.scm | 75 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 75 insertions(+) diff --git a/gnu/packages/c.scm b/gnu/packages/c.scm index bc6042874..0398bb04d 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/c.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/c.scm @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ ;;; Copyright © 2016, 2018 Ludovic Courtès ;;; Copyright © 2016, 2017 Ricardo Wurmus ;;; Copyright © 2018 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice +;;; Copyright © 2018 Pierre Neidhardt ;;; ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix. ;;; @@ -22,6 +23,7 @@ #:use-module ((guix licenses) #:prefix license:) #:use-module (guix packages) #:use-module (guix download) + #:use-module (guix git-download) #:use-module (guix build-system gnu) #:use-module (guix build-system trivial) #:use-module (gnu packages bootstrap) @@ -30,6 +32,12 @@ #:use-module (gnu packages perl) #:use-module (gnu packages texinfo) #:use-module (gnu packages guile) + #:use-module (gnu packages multiprecision) + #:use-module (gnu packages pcre) + #:use-module (gnu packages python) + #:use-module (gnu packages autotools) + #:use-module (gnu packages gettext) + #:use-module (gnu packages pkg-config) #:use-module (srfi srfi-1)) (define-public tcc @@ -166,3 +174,70 @@ compiler while still keeping it small, simple, fast and understandable.") ;; PCC incorporates code under various BSD licenses; for new code bsd-2 is ;; preferred. See http://pcc.ludd.ltu.se/licenses/ for more details. (license (list license:bsd-2 license:bsd-3)))) + +(define-public libbytesize + (package + (name "libbytesize") + (version "1.3") + (source (origin + (method git-fetch) + (uri (git-reference + (url "https://github.com/storaged-project/libbytesize") + (commit version))) + (file-name (string-append name "-" version "-checkout")) + (sha256 + (base32 + "1ys5d8rya8x4q34gn1hr96z7797s9gdzah0y0d7g84x5x6k50p30")))) + (build-system gnu-build-system) + (native-inputs + `(("autoconf" ,autoconf) + ("automake" ,automake) + ("libtool" ,libtool) + ("gettext" ,gettext-minimal) + ("pkg-config" ,pkg-config) + ("python" ,python) + ("python2" ,python-2) ; For tests. + ("python2-six" ,python2-six) ; For tests. + ("python2-polib" ,python2-polib) ; For tests. + )) + (inputs + `(("mpfr" ,mpfr) + ("pcre" ,pcre))) + (arguments + `(#:tests? #f ; One test fails because busctl (systemd only?) and + ; python2-pocketlint are missing. + #:phases + (modify-phases %standard-phases + (add-after 'unpack 'autogen + (lambda _ + (invoke ("sh" "autogen.sh"))))))) + (home-page "https://github.com/storaged-project/libbytesize") + (synopsis "Tiny C library for working with arbitrary big sizes in bytes") + (description + "The goal of this project is to provide a tiny library that would +facilitate the common operations with sizes in bytes. Many projects need to +work with sizes in bytes (be it sizes of storage space, memory...) and all of +them need to deal with the same issues like: + +@itemize +@item How to get a human-readable string for the given size? +@item How to store the given size so that no significant information is lost? +@item If we store the size in bytes, what if the given size gets over the +MAXUINT64 value? +@item How to interpret sizes entered by users according to their locale and +typing conventions? +@item How to deal with the decimal/binary units (MB vs. MiB) ambiguity? +@end itemize + +Some projects have all the above questions/concerns addressed well, some have +them addressed partially some simply don't care. However, having (partial) +solutions implemented in multiple places every time with a different set of +bugs, differences in behaviour and this or that missing is a waste of time and +effort. We need a generally usable solution that could be used by every +project that needs to deal with sizes in bytes. + +Since the goal is to provide a solution as much generally usable as possible +the implementation has to be small, fast and written in a language that can be +easily interfaced from other languages. The current obvious choice is the C +language with thin bindings for other languages.") + (license license:lgpl2.1+))) -- 2.17.1