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diff --git a/devel/R-cran-Rcpp/pkg-descr b/devel/R-cran-Rcpp/pkg-descr index 3de69dad7aa9..f52eb695c352 100644 --- a/devel/R-cran-Rcpp/pkg-descr +++ b/devel/R-cran-Rcpp/pkg-descr @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ provided by R. Rcpp provides matching C++ classes for a large number of basic R data types. Hence, a package author can keep his data in normal R data structures without having to worry about translation or -transfering to C++. At the same time, the data structures can be +transferring to C++. At the same time, the data structures can be accessed as easily at the C++ level, and used in the normal manner. The mapping of data types works in both directions. It is as diff --git a/devel/bcc/pkg-descr b/devel/bcc/pkg-descr index 52c67a588f69..a671eeb5208c 100644 --- a/devel/bcc/pkg-descr +++ b/devel/bcc/pkg-descr @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ This is Bruce Evans' C compiler and binutils package. Either the compiler as the assembler are able to generate 16-bit code. -Hence it's possible to compile BIOS and DOS code under unix. +Hence it's possible to compile BIOS and DOS code under Unix. The C compiler does understand K&R1 syntax, with a few restrictions regarding bit fields. See the file work/bcc/bcc-cc1/bcc.bugs for diff --git a/devel/cmake-fedora/pkg-descr b/devel/cmake-fedora/pkg-descr index 4c973be787b9..0f2e4f753ab2 100644 --- a/devel/cmake-fedora/pkg-descr +++ b/devel/cmake-fedora/pkg-descr @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ cmake-fedora consists a set of cmake modules that provideds helper macros and -targets for linux, especially fedora developers. +targets for Linux, especially Fedora developers. WWW: https://fedorahosted.org/cmake-fedora/ diff --git a/devel/go-termbox/pkg-descr b/devel/go-termbox/pkg-descr index fc7e3b34b93f..c4e7a76cc0f2 100644 --- a/devel/go-termbox/pkg-descr +++ b/devel/go-termbox/pkg-descr @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Termbox is a library that provides a minimalistic API which allows the programmer to write text-based user interfaces. The library is crossplatform and has both terminal-based implementations on *nix operating systems and a winapi console based implementation for -windows operating systems. The basic idea is an abstraction of the +Windows operating systems. The basic idea is an abstraction of the greatest common subset of features available on all major terminals and other terminal-like APIs in a minimalistic fashion. Small API means it is easy to implement, test, maintain and learn it, that's diff --git a/devel/guikachu/pkg-descr b/devel/guikachu/pkg-descr index 72b5192eeba6..b5ea5e9d9533 100644 --- a/devel/guikachu/pkg-descr +++ b/devel/guikachu/pkg-descr @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ Guikachu is a resource editor for PalmOS(tm) systems. It allows you to visually create dialog boxes, menu bars and windows for your -Palm application in the GNOME desktop environment. +Palm application in the GNOME desktop environment. WWW: http://cactus.rulez.org/projects/guikachu/ diff --git a/devel/hgview/pkg-descr b/devel/hgview/pkg-descr index d617ede6b08e..c93865350d6d 100644 --- a/devel/hgview/pkg-descr +++ b/devel/hgview/pkg-descr @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ A faster implementation of hgk using pyqt4. Its primary purpose -was to be able to browse the linux kernel mercurial repository. +was to be able to browse the Linux kernel mercurial repository. WWW: http://www.logilab.org/project/hgview/ diff --git a/devel/hs-DrIFT/pkg-descr b/devel/hs-DrIFT/pkg-descr index 7652d6136453..74154e989adb 100644 --- a/devel/hs-DrIFT/pkg-descr +++ b/devel/hs-DrIFT/pkg-descr @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ then appended to the bottom of the input file. The rules are expressed as Haskell code, and it is intended that the user can add new rules as required. DrIFT automates instance derivation for classes that aren't supported by the standard compilers. In addition, instances can be -produced in seperate modules to that containing the type declaration. +produced in separate modules to that containing the type declaration. This allows instances to be derived for a type after the original module has been compiled. As a bonus, simple utility functions can also be produced from a type. diff --git a/devel/hs-system-fileio/pkg-descr b/devel/hs-system-fileio/pkg-descr index 0f8e8a1551b4..09b6324dc148 100644 --- a/devel/hs-system-fileio/pkg-descr +++ b/devel/hs-system-fileio/pkg-descr @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -This is a small wrapper around the "directory", "unix", and "Win32" +This is a small wrapper around the "directory", "Unix", and "Win32" packages, for use with "system-filepath". It provides a consistent API to the various versions of these packages distributed with different versions of GHC. In particular, this library supports working with diff --git a/devel/hs-unix-compat/pkg-descr b/devel/hs-unix-compat/pkg-descr index 81a398a04130..d7b995ed6eac 100644 --- a/devel/hs-unix-compat/pkg-descr +++ b/devel/hs-unix-compat/pkg-descr @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -This package provides portable implementations of parts of the unix package. -This package re-exports the unix package when available. When it isn't +This package provides portable implementations of parts of the Unix package. +This package re-exports the Unix package when available. When it isn't available, portable implementations are used. WWW: http://github.com/jystic/unix-compat diff --git a/devel/libeio/pkg-descr b/devel/libeio/pkg-descr index ebd62377e8b6..aff64edff783 100644 --- a/devel/libeio/pkg-descr +++ b/devel/libeio/pkg-descr @@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ similar style and spirit as libev. Features include: asynchronous read, write, open, close, stat, unlink, fdatasync, mknod, readdir etc. (basically the full POSIX API), sendfile -(native on solaris, linux, hp-ux, freebsd, emulated everywehere else), -readahead (emulated where not available). It is fully event-library +(native on Solaris, Linux, HP-UX, FreeBSD, emulated everywhere else), +read-ahead (emulated where not available). It is fully event-library agnostic and can easily be integrated into any event-library (or used standalone, even in polling mode). diff --git a/devel/libexecinfo/pkg-descr b/devel/libexecinfo/pkg-descr index e5c51c9c4c27..ff5b94b5e983 100644 --- a/devel/libexecinfo/pkg-descr +++ b/devel/libexecinfo/pkg-descr @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ This is a quick-n-dirty BSD licensed clone of backtrace facility found -in the GNU libc, mainly intended for porting linuxish code to BSD +in the GNU libc, mainly intended for porting Linuxish code to BSD platforms, however it can be used at any platform which has a gcc compiler. diff --git a/devel/librelp/pkg-descr b/devel/librelp/pkg-descr index 2fdecb3c0db2..d7445ee7b16b 100644 --- a/devel/librelp/pkg-descr +++ b/devel/librelp/pkg-descr @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ when connections break and a peer becomes unavailable. The current version of RELP has a minimal window of opportunity for message duplication after a session has been broken due to network problems. In this case, a few messages may be duplicated (a problem that also -exists with plain tcp syslog). Future versions of RELP will address +exists with plain TCP syslog). Future versions of RELP will address this shortcoming. WWW: http://www.librelp.com/ diff --git a/devel/libtecla/pkg-descr b/devel/libtecla/pkg-descr index 6ca6f08dc374..266b4470818f 100644 --- a/devel/libtecla/pkg-descr +++ b/devel/libtecla/pkg-descr @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ The tecla library provides UNIX and LINUX programs with interactive -command line editing facilities, similar to those of the unix tcsh +command line editing facilities, similar to those of the Unix tcsh shell. In addition to simple command-line editing, it supports recall of previously entered command lines, TAB completion of file names or other tokens, and in-line wild-card expansion of file names. The diff --git a/devel/ocaml-annexlib/pkg-descr b/devel/ocaml-annexlib/pkg-descr index 3b7ddef9b6ee..da49ec510a1e 100644 --- a/devel/ocaml-annexlib/pkg-descr +++ b/devel/ocaml-annexlib/pkg-descr @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ An extension Library -This is mostly to fill in some gaps in the standard and unix +This is mostly to fill in some gaps in the standard and Unix libraries, either for completeness or because they're things I find myself needing a lot of the time, and a few modules that aren't worthy of being their own releases. Enjoy. Most of this used to be part of an diff --git a/devel/p5-File-ShareDir/pkg-descr b/devel/p5-File-ShareDir/pkg-descr index 1d3c98d4c470..a6d2353dc5ba 100644 --- a/devel/p5-File-ShareDir/pkg-descr +++ b/devel/p5-File-ShareDir/pkg-descr @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Quite often you want or need your Perl module (CPAN or otherwise) to have access to a large amount of read-only data that is stored on the file-system at run-time. -On a linux-like system, this would be in a place such as /usr/share, +On a Linux-like system, this would be in a place such as /usr/share, however Perl runs on a wide variety of different systems, and so the use of any one location is unreliable. diff --git a/devel/p5-IO-FDPass/pkg-descr b/devel/p5-IO-FDPass/pkg-descr index c323222817a6..63cda79e653c 100644 --- a/devel/p5-IO-FDPass/pkg-descr +++ b/devel/p5-IO-FDPass/pkg-descr @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ This small low-level module only has one purpose: pass a file -descriptor to another process, using a (streaming) unix domain socket +descriptor to another process, using a (streaming) Unix domain socket (on POSIX systems) or any (streaming) socket (on WIN32 systems). The ability to pass file descriptors on windows is currently the unique selling point of this module. Have I mentioned that it is really diff --git a/devel/p5-Mock-Quick/pkg-descr b/devel/p5-Mock-Quick/pkg-descr index 0355198f1098..f328c56e997e 100644 --- a/devel/p5-Mock-Quick/pkg-descr +++ b/devel/p5-Mock-Quick/pkg-descr @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ Mock-Object provides a declarative mocking interface that results in a -very concise, but clear syntax. There are seperate facilities for +very concise, but clear syntax. There are separate facilities for mocking object instances, and classes. You can quickly create an instance of an object with custom attributes and methods. You can also -quickly create an anonymous class, optionally inhereting from another, +quickly create an anonymous class, optionally inheriting from another, with whatever methods you desire. Mock-Object also provides a tool that provides an OO interface to diff --git a/devel/p5-Perl-OSType/pkg-descr b/devel/p5-Perl-OSType/pkg-descr index 0b91ebf7a0c6..1476ee855101 100644 --- a/devel/p5-Perl-OSType/pkg-descr +++ b/devel/p5-Perl-OSType/pkg-descr @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Modules that provide OS-specific behaviors often need to know if the current operating system matches a more generic type of operating -systems. For example, 'linux' is a type of 'Unix' operating system and -so is 'freebsd'. +systems. For example, 'Linux' is a type of 'Unix' operating system and +so is 'FreeBSD'. This module provides a mapping between an operating system name as given by $^O and a more generic type. diff --git a/devel/p5-Sys-Cpu/pkg-descr b/devel/p5-Sys-Cpu/pkg-descr index a34977c1d8ac..15814818fd4e 100644 --- a/devel/p5-Sys-Cpu/pkg-descr +++ b/devel/p5-Sys-Cpu/pkg-descr @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Sys::CPU - Perl extension for getting CPU information. In responce to a post on perlmonks.org, a module for counting the number of CPU's on a system. Support has now also been added for type of CPU and clock speed. While much of the code -is from UNIX::Processors, win32 support has been added +is from UNIX::Processors, Win32 support has been added (but not tested). WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Sys-Cpu/ diff --git a/devel/p5-Term-Screen/pkg-descr b/devel/p5-Term-Screen/pkg-descr index a310dc072ad3..f4b7d0e143d7 100644 --- a/devel/p5-Term-Screen/pkg-descr +++ b/devel/p5-Term-Screen/pkg-descr @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Term::Screen is a very simple screen positioning module that should work wherever `Term::Cap' does. It is set up for Unix using stty's but these -dependences are isolated by evals in the `new' constructor. Thus you may +dependencies are isolated by evals in the `new' constructor. Thus you may create a child module implementing Screen with MS-DOS, ioctl, or other means to get raw and unblocked input. This is not a replacement for Curses -- it has no memory. This was written so that it could be easily diff --git a/devel/p5-Test-EOL/pkg-descr b/devel/p5-Test-EOL/pkg-descr index 03d0b6e2a713..6a37ca4a2099 100644 --- a/devel/p5-Test-EOL/pkg-descr +++ b/devel/p5-Test-EOL/pkg-descr @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Test::EOL lets you check the presence of windows line endings in your +Test::EOL lets you check the presence of Windows line endings in your perl code. It report its results in standard Test::Simple fashion. WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-EOL/ diff --git a/devel/pear-PhpDocumentor/pkg-descr b/devel/pear-PhpDocumentor/pkg-descr index baf513a613c8..064070e818e2 100644 --- a/devel/pear-PhpDocumentor/pkg-descr +++ b/devel/pear-PhpDocumentor/pkg-descr @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ The phpDocumentor tool is a standalone auto-documentor similar to JavaDoc written in PHP. It differs from PHPDoc in that it is MUCH faster, parses a much wider range of php files, and comes with many customizations including 11 HTML -templates, windows help file CHM output, PDF output, and XML DocBook peardoc2 +templates, Windows help file CHM output, PDF output, and XML DocBook peardoc2 output for use with documenting PEAR. In addition, it can do PHPXref source code highlighting and linking. diff --git a/devel/py-billiard/pkg-descr b/devel/py-billiard/pkg-descr index afd343ac3491..b45e980c179f 100644 --- a/devel/py-billiard/pkg-descr +++ b/devel/py-billiard/pkg-descr @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ billiard is a fork of the Python 2.7 multiprocessing package. The multiprocessing package itself is a renamed and updated version of R Oudkerk's pyprocessing package. This standalone variant is intended -to be compatible with Python 2.4 and 2.5, and will draw it's +to be compatible with Python 2.4 and 2.5, and will draw its fixes/improvements from python-trunk. WWW: https://github.com/celery/billiard diff --git a/devel/py-tipper/pkg-descr b/devel/py-tipper/pkg-descr index f11a81249f9a..b836484a1b7d 100644 --- a/devel/py-tipper/pkg-descr +++ b/devel/py-tipper/pkg-descr @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Python processes. Included is a module that, when imported, installs a `signal handler`_ for `SIGUSR1`_. Running ``kill -SIGUSR1 [pid]`` will cause the process to dump the current stack trace of each thread to -``$TMPDIR/tipper-[unix timestamp]-[parent pid]-[pid].log``. +``$TMPDIR/tipper-[Unix timestamp]-[parent pid]-[pid].log``. WWW: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tipper diff --git a/devel/qconf/pkg-descr b/devel/qconf/pkg-descr index 8502570b31a6..28d04cda7713 100644 --- a/devel/qconf/pkg-descr +++ b/devel/qconf/pkg-descr @@ -2,6 +2,6 @@ QConf allows you to have a nice configure script for your qmake-based project. It is intended for developers who don't need (or want) to use the more complex GNU autotools. With qconf/qmake, it is easy to maintain a cross-platform project that uses a familiar configuration -interface on unix. +interface on Unix. WWW: http://delta.affinix.com/qconf/ diff --git a/devel/quilt/pkg-descr b/devel/quilt/pkg-descr index e48954b99ba9..dd2248f170ee 100644 --- a/devel/quilt/pkg-descr +++ b/devel/quilt/pkg-descr @@ -5,6 +5,6 @@ The key philosophical concept is that your primary output is patches. Not ".c" files, not ".h" files. But patches. So patches are the first-class object here. Quilt was originally based on Andrew Morton's patch scripts published -on the linux kernel mailing list. +on the Linux kernel mailing list. WWW: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt diff --git a/devel/rubygem-file-tail/pkg-descr b/devel/rubygem-file-tail/pkg-descr index 770c73931c5b..630abdaf6b3c 100644 --- a/devel/rubygem-file-tail/pkg-descr +++ b/devel/rubygem-file-tail/pkg-descr @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ This is a small ruby library that allows Ruby to 'tail' a file, -including following a file, that still is growing like the unix +including following a file, that still is growing like the Unix command 'tail -f' can. This Library is similar to Perl's File::Tail. It can be used to diff --git a/devel/rubygem-rubyinline/pkg-descr b/devel/rubygem-rubyinline/pkg-descr index d0228abdd954..b46bb1692741 100644 --- a/devel/rubygem-rubyinline/pkg-descr +++ b/devel/rubygem-rubyinline/pkg-descr @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ perl, whatever). The code is compiled and run on the fly when needed. Using the package_inline tool Inline now allows you to package up your inlined object code for distribution to systems without a compiler -(read: windows)! +(read: Windows)! FEATURES/PROBLEMS: * Quick and easy inlining of your C or C++ code embedded in your ruby |