[Request]: gperf

[wentywenty]

Prerequisites

• I have searched all issues/PRs to ensure it has not already been reported or fixed.

Criteria

• Reasonably well-known and widely used (e.g. if it's a GitHub project, it should have at least 100 stars and/or 50 forks)
• English interface (or at least English documentation)
• Latest stable version
• Full version (i.e. not a trial version)
• Fairly standard install (e.g. uses a version-specific download URL, no elaborate pre/post install scripts)

Name

gperf

Description

GNU gperf is a perfect hash function generator. For a given list of strings, it produces a hash function and hash table, in form of C or C++ code, for looking up a value depending on the input string. The hash function is perfect, which means that the hash table has no collisions, and the hash table lookup needs a single string comparison only. GNU gperf is highly customizable. There are options for generating C or C++ code, for emitting switch statements or nested ifs instead of a hash table, and for tuning the algorithm employed by gperf.

Homepage

https://www.gnu.org/software/gperf/gperf.html

Download Link(s)

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/carlescufi/chocolatey-packages/master/packages/gperf/tools/gperf-3.1-win64_x64.zip https://raw.githubusercontent.com/carlescufi/chocolatey-packages/master/packages/gperf/tools/gperf-3.1-win32_x32.zip

Some Indication of Popularity/Repute

https://docs.zephyrproject.org/latest/develop/getting_started/index.html

[z-Fng]

I'd advise against adding gperf to any Scoop bucket.

Unlike Emacs in Extras bucket, GNU gperf lacks an official standalone release for Windows. This means it is likely tightly coupled with MSYS2, which already has an excellent package manager (pacman).

• See: https://packages.msys2.org/packages/gperf

  pacman -S gperf
  

To include it in Scoop, rather than simply adding the binaries, we would have to perform extensive porting work -- similar to what aspell did, which would make it difficult to maintain.