On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 09:53:00AM +1000, Ben Woodcroft wrote: > > > 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.
Cool! Your packaging of Rails comes a long way too. Of course there is a lot more to package still ;) > 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. Interesting point. Question is whether it is all laziness of upstream, or that it is a form of bootstrapping the test systems ;). I'll factor it in if anyone is interested in this project in the SciRuby world. Pj. --
