On Sat, Dec 02, 2017 at 07:04:09PM +0100, nee wrote: > Hello, what is the current state for the elixir package? > > I saw this issue on elixir's github page: > https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/issues/6586 > Has there been any progress since then? From what I understand the build > fails because of impure test cases. Can we just disable these tests for > now to make it build again?
I am all for that. Not that many tests fail (in the order of 1%), but it is a pain to disable them by hand. That is why I have not done an update in a while - I am running a more recent version on my GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH with tests disabled. The simple way is to remove a number of test files. The majority of tests will work and since Erlang's tests also work - there are a large number of them (thousands). I would be fully confident the new package is fine. > I wanted to see if I can install and package the phoenix web-server > framework and the pleroma federated social network, since both are > becoming pretty popular recently due to their low resource requirements. That would be really cool. I would like support for Elixir packages. I run a REST service and GraphQL is coming. I don't like to depend on Elixir's packaging system, though it has been reasonably OK so far. It will break at some point - as they all do. Elixir's packaging is similar to D's dub, so we can take some cues from that. Elixir packages everything in the local source tree - similar to Ruby's bundler. > I also think it's not good to have a broken package on master for so long. > The hydra web interface shows that version 1.4.2 used to build in the > past > https://hydra.gnu.org/job/gnu/master/elixir-1.4.2.x86_64-linux/all?page=2 > and I only see one commit for this version in the past, so what did > change there? Must be a dependency that changed. Hmmm. August 2nd. commit ee217402f7bf4b9fd49250650cf94d882a5e1a23 Author: Peter Mikkelsen <petermikkelse...@gmail.com> Date: Mon Jul 31 01:19:15 2017 +0200 gnu: erlang: Update to 20.0. * gnu/packages/erlang.scm (erlang): Update to 20.0. Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> Must be it ;). It is great people are updating Erlang! These are great programming languages. I am happy to work on Elixir with you. Pj. --
