From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: Improving the Python build system. Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 22:51:13 +0200 Message-ID: <20130902205113.GA9799@debian> References: <521A936C.3040900@gmail.com> <20130901132726.GB1699@debian> <87mwnv57my.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36202) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VGb5q-0007dg-Lh for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Sep 2013 16:51:32 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VGb5l-0000Tm-5O for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Sep 2013 16:51:26 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87mwnv57my.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?iso-8859-15?Q?Court=E8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 09:46:29PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > You mean a ‘build’ phase, right? And also change the ‘check’ phase to > run ‘python setup.py test’ Yes. > (what does ‘python setup.py check’ do concretely?) According to http://docs.python.org/3.4/distutils/examples.html Section 7.4: "The check command allows you to verify if your package meta-data meet the minimum requirements to build a distribution" So apparently this is only useful for the packager of a python module and not for us. Andreas