On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 11:30 AM, Alex Kost <alez...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ricardo Wurmus (2016-10-27 20:48 +0200) wrote: > >> Alex Kost <alez...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>>> @Alex: could you please confirm this? Should these inputs be mentioned >>>> at all? If so, is it sufficient to add them to native-inputs? >>> >>> As for me, I don't see a reason to add these additional inputs, >>> emacs-build-system will not run tests anyway. >> >> Thank you for clarifying. >> >> Is there a reason why we don’t run the tests? We do this by default for >> all other packages. > > How can it be done? There is no common way for emacs packages to > perform tests: only some packages have Makefile (with "check" phase), > and it would be a really good luck if "make check" as is succeeded for > them. Usually such projects use Cask to run tests or even some custom > scripts. They may use just "ert" or "ert-running" package (or maybe > something else). > > After all, I think that adding a 'check' phase to emacs-build-system is > not worth an effort: there would be too much manual interventions in > package recipes to make tests work for different emacs packages.
You said it all! Fede
