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diff --git a/gnu/packages/compression.scm b/gnu/packages/compression.scm index e63c1af048..c239d16638 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/compression.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/compression.scm @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ ;;; Copyright © 2016 Ben Woodcroft <donttrustben@gmail.com> ;;; Copyright © 2016 Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> ;;; Copyright © 2016 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> +;;; Copyright © 2016 David Craven <david@craven.ch> ;;; ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix. ;;; @@ -871,3 +872,26 @@ even LZMA can provide, or a higher speed than gzip while compressing as well as bzip2.") (license (list license:gpl3+ license:public-domain)))) ; most files in lzma/ + +(define-public snappy + (package + (name "snappy") + (version "1.1.3") + (source (origin + (method url-fetch) + (uri (string-append + "https://github.com/google/snappy/releases/download/" + version "/" name "-" version ".tar.gz")) + (sha256 + (base32 + "1wzf8yif5ym2gj52db6v5m1pxnmn258i38x7llk9x346y2nq47ig")))) + (build-system gnu-build-system) + (home-page "https://github.com/google/snappy") + (synopsis "Fast compressor/decompressor") + (description "Snappy is a compression/decompression library. It does not +aim for maximum compression, or compatibility with any other compression library; +instead, it aims for very high speeds and reasonable compression. For instance, +compared to the fastest mode of zlib, Snappy is an order of magnitude faster +for most inputs, but the resulting compressed files are anywhere from 20% to +100% bigger.") + (license license:asl2.0))) |