Re: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add ruby-simplecov.

[Pjotr Prins]

The dependency is only for those cases that use HTML output. I am
using it for cucumber which don't needs it. Feel free to put in the
dependency. And push it.

Pj.


On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 11:34:18AM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Hi Pjotr,
> 
> > * gnu/packages/ruby.scm (ruby-simplecov): New variable.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > +  (propagated-inputs
> > +    `(("ruby-docile" ,ruby-docile)
> > +      ("ruby-json" ,ruby-json)))
> > +    (arguments
> > +     '(#:tests? #f)) ; needs github-markup, among others
> > +  (synopsis "Code coverage for Ruby")
> 
> I find it very surprising to see only “docile” and “json” as inputs and
> not “ruby-simplecov-html”.  According to
> https://rubygems.org/gems/simplecov “simplecov-html” is a runtime
> dependency.
> 
> With my Ruby packages I’ve been closely following the dependencies as
> they are declared on rubygems.org.
> 
> I’ve sent a patch to add “ruby-simplecov-html” to the ML a couple of
> minutes ago, so maybe you could update your patch and add it as an
> input.
> 
> > +  (description "Code coverage analysis tool for Ruby.  It uses Ruby's
> > +built-in Coverage library to gather code coverage data, but makes
> > +processing its results much easier by providing a clean API to filter,
> > +group, merge, format, and display those results, giving you a complete
> > +code coverage suite that can be set up with just a couple lines of
> > +code.
> > +")
> 
> The closing quote and the closing parenthesis should be on the same line
> as the period.  The rest looks good to me.
> 
> ~~ Ricardo
> 

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