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

[Ricardo Wurmus]

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.

~~ Ricardo