From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Inherit inputs when unnecessary in these python2 packages?
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 22:19:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160214031941.GA17916@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87twlct53f.fsf@dustycloud.org>
On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 06:10:17PM -0800, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
> I'm doing a lot of packaging for Python packages right now. A lot of
> the code looks like this:
[...]
> > (define-public python2-execnet
> > (package
> > (inherit (package-with-python2
> > (strip-python2-variant python-execnet)))
> > (inputs
> > `(("python2-setuptools" ,python2-setuptools)))))
>
> As you can see, there is no inputs on python-execnet, so it's not
> necessary to include the inputs. However, if (inputs) were added in the
> future, this could lead to a developer mistakenly forgetting to change
> the python2 variant.
>
> What's the better approach?
Take a look at python2-wheel, as in 8ad4ae204f.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-14 3:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-14 2:10 Inherit inputs when unnecessary in these python2 packages? Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-14 3:19 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2016-02-14 14:48 ` Andreas Enge
2016-02-14 19:09 ` Leo Famulari
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