Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add python-hdf4.

[Marius Bakke]

Thomas Danckaert <address@hidden> writes:

> From: Marius Bakke <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add python-hdf4.
> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 18:09:07 +0100
>
>> Thomas Danckaert <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Hi Guix,
>>>
>>> this patch adds python-hdf4.  I'm not sure if the line “Python-HDF4
>>> is a fork of pyhdf.” in the description is necessary.  The original
>>> and “official” pyhdf (http://hdfeos.org/software/pyhdf.php) is
>>> somewhat outdated (e.g. doesn't support python3).
>>
>> The "official" pyhdf and this fork was released around the same 
>> time and
>> have the same version number. Confusing! But I'll take your word 
>> that
>> this one is better.
>
> Yes, it seems it mirrors updates in the “official” one, and keeps the 
> same version numbers.

Thanks for clarifying.

>
>> Regarding the patch, I wonder if it should go in (gnu packages 
>> maths),
>> similar to how we put PDF libraries in pdf.scm and XML in xml.scm 
>> etc.
>> But no strong opinion here.
>
> I've wondered the same.  Right now, h5py, which is a similar package 
> for HDF5, is also in python.scm, so I decided to add this package 
> next to it.  As an aside, I find many packages in maths.scm are not 
> really “mathy” (“science” maybe), but anyway :-)

OK! :)

>> The 'check' phase seems to run the build again, and prints at the 
>> end
>> "Ran 0 tests in 0.000s". Looking at the Github ".travis.yml", the CI
>> tool runs the command "nosetests" instead of 'python setup.py test' 
>> like
>> python-build-system does by default. Can you try replacing the 
>> 'check'
>> phase with that command? You'll need 'python-nose' as a 
>> native-input.
>
> I hadn't noticed that. This patch adds nosetests, but that just 
> prints “Ran 0 tests in .005s”, so it seems there are no tests.  Shall 
> we just delete the 'check' phase?

Ha, it seems the one nosetest was added after the 0.9 release. But I
missed another script from the ".travis.yml" which runs through some
example scripts. I added that as well, and kept nose so that it "just
works" when this package is updated.

Applied!

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