Re: [PATCH] 11 little Ruby gems.

[Ben Woodcroft <b.woodcroft@uq.edu.au>]

On 07/10/15 00:35, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Thompson, David <dthompson2@worcester.edu> writes:
>
>> Hey Ricardo,
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 5:12 AM, Ricardo Wurmus
>> <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> wrote:
>>> Hi Guix,
>>>
>>> attached are a couple of patches that resulted from a recent attempt to
>>> traverse the dependency graph for a dependency of some tool I wanted to
>>> package.
>>>
>>> I’m not happy with ‘0007-gnu-Add-ruby-rb-fsevent.patch’ because it is to
>>> be used on a Mac OSX, but unfortunately this is a required input for
>>> a more general file system library that is in my pipeline.
>>>
>>> I’m also not happy with disabling tests for ‘ruby-yard’, but I didn’t
>>> find a way to make them pass.
>> I pushed the first 6 patches with only a couple of minor
>> comment/description tweaks.  Still need to look into what can be done
>> about patch 7 and the test suite for yard.
> According to [1] the Yard tests can only be run with RSpec version 2.12.
> Do you know of any compatibility layer that would allow us to run the
> tests with our more recent version of RSpec?  I’m not keen on packaging
> a different version of RSpec (+ dependencies), to be honest.
>
> ~~ Ricardo
>
> [1]: https://github.com/lsegal/yard/issues/687#issuecomment-21759075
Hi Ricardo,

Stupidly not being aware of this thread I believe I've got ruby-yard 
packaged without disabling tests just now, by packaging rspec-2 (and 
skipping the 2 remaining failing tests that write to /homeless-shelter). 
I think that issue on github might be incorrect (there's no rspec 2.14.3 
on rubygems only 2.14.1 which seems to work for me). It actually means 4 
new rspec-2 packages in total, there's no dependency issues beyond rspec 
I don't think. Would you like me to send patches? My suspicion is that 
there might be other packages that rely on rspec-2 out there, but that's 
just a hunch more than anything.

ben