From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: [Patch v2 1/3] gnu: Add python-pypdf2. Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 11:46:24 +0100 Message-ID: <87vavvtxxb.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1478641022-30723-1-git-send-email-h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com> <1478731153-27023-1-git-send-email-h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com> 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]:34095) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c4msJ-0003kz-39 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Nov 2016 05:46:32 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c4msF-0000Am-82 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Nov 2016 05:46:31 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1478731153-27023-1-git-send-email-h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com> (Hartmut Goebel's message of "Wed, 9 Nov 2016 23:39:11 +0100") 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" To: Hartmut Goebel Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hartmut Goebel skribis: > * gnu/packages/pdf.scm(python-pypdf2, python2-pypdf2): New variables. ^ Space please. > + (arguments > + `(#:tests? #f)) ; tests fail in Python 3 (due to str vs bytes) So probably we should only build the Python 2 variant? WDYT? > +@item and more! I=E2=80=99d remove this line. > +By being pure Python, it should run on any Python platform without any > +dependencies on external libraries. It can also work entirely on String= IO @code{StringIO} Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.