From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Woodcroft Subject: Re: GSoC ideas Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2016 09:53:00 +1000 Message-ID: <56B6875C.3080307@uq.edu.au> References: <20160206113802.GA17867@thebird.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50247) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aSCfB-00044k-Lf for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Feb 2016 18:53:14 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aSCf8-0007uX-FF for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Feb 2016 18:53:13 -0500 Received: from mailhub1.soe.uq.edu.au ([130.102.132.208]:33375 helo=newmailhub.uq.edu.au) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aSCf7-0007uR-TK for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Feb 2016 18:53:10 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20160206113802.GA17867@thebird.nl> 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: Pjotr Prins , guix-devel@gnu.org 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. 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.