patch feedback:depends_test - port test - port lint -append

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Sat Sep 5 15:27:03 PDT 2015


On 2015-09-04 21:02, Joshua Root wrote:
> On 2015-9-4 07:43 , Kurt Hindenburg wrote:
>> Hi,
>>   Can I get some feedback on these patches?
>>
>> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/38208 - add depends_test
> 
> r+
> 
> LGTM. My one concern would be that end users may not want irrelevant (to
> them) test deps showing up in depends:, rdeps and so forth, but we
> should come up with a general solution to that, not just omit them.

They already see dependencies for fetch/extract/build, which are
irrelevant if a binary archive is available.

rdeps already has a --no-build, which actually excludes
fetch/extract/build. It would make sense to also exclude depends_test
here as the test phase can only be run when building.

Rainer


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