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

[Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org>]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 11:30 AM, Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

You said it all!

Fede