<worldofpeace>
The plans there were to 'Drop Perl test driver'
<aszlig>
oh sheesh :-D
<worldofpeace>
yeah, we're not going to do that
<aszlig>
just counted the amount of tests of all my active projects: 297
<samueldr>
the solution is to be less active, aszlig
<aszlig>
haha, well... or just don't update to 20.03, but i think that's not an option either
<samueldr>
(that was obviously a joke)
<worldofpeace>
aszlig: I don't think there's any reason the testing driver shouldn't continue working until a further date, so I believe it should be left intact
<samueldr>
another option is for it to be extracted into a component that you could import in your projects, not sure how problematic it can be
<worldofpeace>
samueldr: so what do you think of makeTest having a `usePerlDriver` that defaults to false? testing.nix and testing-python.nix are currently the same
<aszlig>
worldofpeace: well, at some point i think getting rid of the perl implementation would be okay, since keeping the code rotting around isn't going to make things more maintainable
<worldofpeace>
aszlig: I don't think the two drivers should live together
<aszlig>
worldofpeace: well, even if it's like "if you upgrade to 20.03 and want to keep your existing perl tests until 20.09, please use import <nixpkgs/lib/legacy-perl-testing-driver-ultralong-path-because-dont-use-and-will-be-removed/make-test.nix>", it would be fine as well =)
<aszlig>
which reminds me... i should rebase the video stuff someday
<aszlig>
do we already have a way to put build failures into a CAS in hydra?
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<arianvp>
guix package --list-generations shows a summary of what was done in each generation
<arianvp>
coool
<arianvp>
we should steal this
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<infinisil>
arianvp: What does it look like?
<Nyanloutre[m]>
I have an issue with medias from remote server not being downloaded on the local server. I wanted to know if anyone got the same error here.
<Nyanloutre[m]>
Hello, I am trying the mastodon pull request. Does anyone else uses it ?
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<drakonis_>
arianvp: somebody's been watching the guix talk
<aanderse>
i'm inclined to agree with Profpatsch here... if people have a bunch of custom tests they aren't going to be happy to have the perl driver removed immediately
<aanderse>
maybe wait a release or 2?
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<andi->
That is also one of my concerns... I guess we will have the argument that it was never a public API.. like nothing ever is…
<aanderse>
i don't think it is a problem to eventually drop it. it really isn't that big a deal to migrate to python. time is the real concern. give people some time. let them know with 20.03 it will be dropped so they can plan accordingly.
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<Profpatsch>
> it really isn’t that big a deal to migrate to python
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<Profpatsch>
who are we to tell people that? What if they have a thousand tests? That takes *days* of completely unnecessary work
<Profpatsch>
Why not keep things that work working.