;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
;;; Copyright © 2016 Nikita <nikita@n0.is>
;;; Copyright © 2018 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
;;; Copyright © 2024 Eric Bavier <bavier@posteo.net>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
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(define-module (gnu packages nickle)
#:use-module (gnu packages)
#:use-module (gnu packages readline)
#:use-module (guix build-system gnu)
#:use-module (guix download)
#:use-module ((guix licenses) #:prefix license:)
#:use-module (guix packages))
(define-public nickle
(package
(name "nickle")
(version "2.97")
(source (origin
(method url-fetch)
(uri (string-append "https://nickle.org/release/nickle-"
version ".tar.gz"))
(sha256
(base32
"0gqashcs3r0d1yp6rq6q2ayjdwsjxnd8z0ij55ayrbhn296l7mp2"))
(patches (search-patches "nickle-man-release-date.patch"))))
(build-system gnu-build-system)
(inputs (list readline))
(arguments
'(#:phases
(modify-phases %standard-phases
(add-after 'unpack 'patch-build-date
(lambda _
;; Our patch touches Makefile.am, but rather than rebootstrap,
;; make the substitution directly in Makefile.in.
(substitute* "Makefile.in"
(("BUILD_DATE") "RELEASE_DATE")))))))
(synopsis "Numeric oriented programming language")
(description
"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. Nickle provides the functionality of Unix bc, dc
and expr in a different form. It is also an ideal environment for prototyping
complex algorithms. Nickle's scripting capabilities make it a replacement for
spreadsheets in some applications, and its numeric features complement the
limited numeric functionality of text-oriented languages such as AWK and Perl.")
(home-page "https://nickle.org/")
(license license:expat)))
