[114094] trunk/dports/python

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Tue Dec 3 22:30:46 PST 2013


On Nov 29, 2013, at 05:40, Peter Danecek <Peter.Danecek at bo.ingv.it> wrote:

> 
> On Nov 29, 2013, at 9:06 , Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> 
>>> +    # testing only
>>> +    depends_run-append      port:py${python.version}-nose \
>>> +                            port:py${python.version}-pep8 \
>>> +                            port:py${python.version}-mock \
>>> +                            port:py${python.version}-pil
>>> +}
>> 
>> How do you mean, “testing only”? If you mean the test phase, as in “sudo port test”, this port doesn’t enable the test phase, and even if it did, runtime dependencies aren’t guaranteed to have been installed by the time the test phase runs.
> 
> No testing is not done during build or installation. So these dependencies are strictly not necessary. However, when you would like to test the package (after installation) you would need them. I discussed this on the list, and was advised to install them as well, because the are small.
> 
> So I did, but marked this explicitly, should the comment be reworded?

Ah, I missed or forgot that mailing list discussion. It’s fine as it is then.




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