Re: [PATCH] 11 little Ruby gems.

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Thompson, David <address@hidden> writes:

> Hey Ricardo,
>
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 5:12 AM, Ricardo Wurmus
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi Guix,
>>
>> attached are a couple of patches that resulted from a recent attempt to
>> traverse the dependency graph for a dependency of some tool I wanted to
>> package.
>>
>> I’m not happy with ‘0007-gnu-Add-ruby-rb-fsevent.patch’ because it is to
>> be used on a Mac OSX, but unfortunately this is a required input for
>> a more general file system library that is in my pipeline.
>>
>> I’m also not happy with disabling tests for ‘ruby-yard’, but I didn’t
>> find a way to make them pass.
>
> I pushed the first 6 patches with only a couple of minor
> comment/description tweaks.  Still need to look into what can be done
> about patch 7 and the test suite for yard.

According to [1] the Yard tests can only be run with RSpec version 2.12.
Do you know of any compatibility layer that would allow us to run the
tests with our more recent version of RSpec?  I’m not keen on packaging
a different version of RSpec (+ dependencies), to be honest.

~~ Ricardo

[1]: https://github.com/lsegal/yard/issues/687#issuecomment-21759075