From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add python-xlrd. Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 22:08:52 +0200 Message-ID: <87si6a5fzf.fsf@mdc-berlin.de> References: <55FD6561.8050608@uq.edu.au> <87k2rmflyv.fsf@openmailbox.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41385) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZdORV-0003o5-8i for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Sep 2015 16:09:06 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZdORS-0005XU-1f for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Sep 2015 16:09:05 -0400 Received: from venus.bbbm.mdc-berlin.de ([141.80.25.30]:40270) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZdORR-0005WD-Nz for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Sep 2015 16:09:01 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87k2rmflyv.fsf@openmailbox.org> 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: Mathieu Lirzin Cc: "guix-devel@gnu.org" Mathieu Lirzin writes: >> + ;; so use nose to run tests instead for now. >> + (replace 'check (lambda _ (zero? (system* "nosetests"))))))) >> + (native-inputs >> + `(("python-setuptools" ,python2-setuptools) >> + ("python-nose" ,python2-nose))) > > I don't know python packaging but when I look at other packages it > seems that these are usually used as =E2=80=9Cinputs=E2=80=9D not > =E2=80=9Cnative-inputs=E2=80=9D. Nose is used for the tests only and setuptools is used at build time, so I think it=E2=80=99s fine like this. ~~ Ricardo