Re: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add emacs-org-trello.

[Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>]

Ricardo Wurmus (2016-10-27 20:48 +0200) wrote:

> Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> @Alex: could you please confirm this?  Should these inputs be mentioned
>>> at all?  If so, is it sufficient to add them to native-inputs?
>>
>> As for me, I don't see a reason to add these additional inputs,
>> emacs-build-system will not run tests anyway.
>
> Thank you for clarifying.
>
> Is there a reason why we don’t run the tests?  We do this by default for
> all other packages.

How can it be done?  There is no common way for emacs packages to
perform tests: only some packages have Makefile (with "check" phase),
and it would be a really good luck if "make check" as is succeeded for
them.  Usually such projects use Cask to run tests or even some custom
scripts.  They may use just "ert" or "ert-running" package (or maybe
something else).

After all, I think that adding a 'check' phase to emacs-build-system is
not worth an effort: there would be too much manual interventions in
package recipes to make tests work for different emacs packages.

But I better let Federico speak about «why we don’t run the tests» as he
wrote emacs-build-system :-)

-- 
Alex