Re: Inherit inputs when unnecessary in these python2 packages?

[Leo Famulari]

On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 06:10:17PM -0800, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
> I'm doing a lot of packaging for Python packages right now.  A lot of
> the code looks like this:

[...]

> > (define-public python2-execnet
> >   (package
> >     (inherit (package-with-python2
> >               (strip-python2-variant python-execnet)))
> >     (inputs
> >      `(("python2-setuptools" ,python2-setuptools)))))
> 
> As you can see, there is no inputs on python-execnet, so it's not
> necessary to include the inputs.  However, if (inputs) were added in the
> future, this could lead to a developer mistakenly forgetting to change
> the python2 variant.
> 
> What's the better approach?

Take a look at python2-wheel, as in 8ad4ae204f.