From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pjotr Prins Subject: Re: GSoC ideas Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2016 06:51:48 +0100 Message-ID: <20160207055148.GA20799@thebird.nl> References: <20160206113802.GA17867@thebird.nl> <56B6875C.3080307@uq.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44951) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aSIH5-0003oj-Go for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Feb 2016 00:52:44 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aSIH0-0000fd-Mi for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Feb 2016 00:52:43 -0500 Received: from mail.thebird.nl ([95.154.246.10]:35732) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aSIH0-0000fX-Hn for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Feb 2016 00:52:38 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <56B6875C.3080307@uq.edu.au> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." 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: Ben Woodcroft Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 09:53:00AM +1000, Ben Woodcroft wrote: > > > On 06/02/16 21:38, Pjotr Prins wrote: > [..] > > - Add all testing frameworks to Guix (e.g. cucumber) > Hey just fyi I think I just got cucumber working here > https://github.com/wwood/guix_mine/blob/master/ben/packages/rails.scm > > but the (7?) patches need finalisation (updating to newest > versions/synopses/description/lint/reproducibility etc.) before > submission here. Cool! Your packaging of Rails comes a long way too. Of course there is a lot more to package still ;) > For Ruby, circular dependencies seem to be an ongoing issue. I'm not > sure how hard this is, but an error message more useful than "stack > overflow" or whatever it is would be helpful, perhaps this is > something a student could work on. Interesting point. Question is whether it is all laziness of upstream, or that it is a form of bootstrapping the test systems ;). I'll factor it in if anyone is interested in this project in the SciRuby world. Pj. --