Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add bits.

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:

> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 04:36:17PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>>> * gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm (bits): New variable.
>>
>>> +      (arguments
>>> +       `(#:tests? #f ;no tests included
>>
>> How about the tests described in the README?
>>
>> https://github.com/arq5x/bits
>>
>> "Now, you can test both the sequential and CUDA versions of the tools by
>> running the bits_tests scripts. Also, this shell script demonstrates how
>> to run each of the BITS tools"
>
> Good idea, I’ll do that.

On second thought: I’d rather not.  The script doesn’t perform any
tests, it doesn’t compare the output to expected values, so I think it
doesn’t really make sense to run it during the check phase.

I’ll push this as is.  Thanks for checking!

~~ Ricardo