Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add python-xlrd.

[Mathieu Lirzin]

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:

> Mathieu Lirzin <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> +         ;; so use nose to run tests instead for now.
>>> +         (replace 'check (lambda _ (zero? (system* "nosetests")))))))
>>> +    (native-inputs
>>> +     `(("python-setuptools" ,python2-setuptools)
>>> +       ("python-nose" ,python2-nose)))
>>
>> I don't know python packaging but when I look at other packages it
>> seems that these are usually used as “inputs” not
>> “native-inputs”.
>
> Nose is used for the tests only and setuptools is used at build time, so
> I think it’s fine like this.

Is this a general statement or something specific to this package? If
this is general it seems to be a good idea to make a big commit that
fixes all the python packages which use these dependencies as normal
inputs?  WDYT?

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Mathieu Lirzin