Re: GSoC ideas

[Pjotr Prins]

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.


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