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[bug#33770] gnu: Add vips.

Message ID 87tvj6omc6.fsf@gnu.org
State Accepted
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Series [bug#33770] gnu: Add vips. | expand

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Ludovic Courtès Dec. 21, 2018, 4:50 p.m. UTC 
Hello!

L  p R n  d n    <guix@lprndn.info> skribis:

>>From d5d6b66818b47f3ea87e13bf0236294b91f942fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Lprndn <guix@lprndn.info>
> Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2018 18:59:34 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add vips.
>
> * gnu/packages/image-processing.scm (vips): New variable.

Applied with these minor changes.  Please let me know if anything is
amiss!

Regarding package synopses and descriptions, please see
<https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Synopses-and-Descriptions.html>.

Thank you!

Ludo’.
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diff --git a/gnu/packages/image-processing.scm b/gnu/packages/image-processing.scm
index df0099c7df..03080d5fde 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/image-processing.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/image-processing.scm
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ 
 ;;; Copyright © 2016 Eric Bavier <bavier@member.fsf.org>
 ;;; Copyright © 2018 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
 ;;; Copyright © 2018 Björn Höfling <bjoern.hoefling@bjoernhoefling.de>
+;;; Copyright © 2018 Lprndn <guix@lprndn.info>
 ;;;
 ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
 ;;;
@@ -440,6 +441,16 @@  vision algorithms.  It can be used to do things like:
        ("expat" ,expat)
        ("hdf5" ,hdf5)))
     (home-page "https://libvips.github.io/libvips/")
-    (synopsis "A free image processing system")
-    (description "vips is a demand-driven, horizontally threaded image processing library")
+    (synopsis "Image processing library")
+    (description
+     "libvips is a demand-driven, horizontally threaded image processing
+library for C and comes with a command-line interface.  It has around 300
+operations covering arithmetic, histograms, convolution, morphological
+operations, frequency filtering, colour, resampling, statistics and others.
+It supports a large range of numeric formats, from 8-bit int to 128-bit
+complex.  Images can have any number of bands.  It supports a good range of
+image formats, including JPEG, TIFF, PNG, WebP, FITS, Matlab, OpenEXR, PDF,
+SVG, HDR, PPM, CSV, GIF, Analyze, NIfTI, DeepZoom, and OpenSlide.  It can also
+load images via ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick, letting it load formats like
+DICOM.  libvips runs quickly and uses little memory.")
     (license license:lgpl2.1+)))