Re: [PATCH 3/6] gnu: add python-selenium and python2-selenium

[Leo Famulari]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 09:19:50PM +0200, Hartmut Goebel wrote:
> * gnu/packages/python.scm (python-selenium) (python2-selenium):
>   New variables.
> ---
>  gnu/packages/python.scm | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 29 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/python.scm b/gnu/packages/python.scm
> index 0241ed5..3c81a1f 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/python.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/python.scm
> @@ -8793,3 +8793,32 @@ provides support for parsing, splitting and formatting 
> SQL statements.")
>  
>  (define-public python2-sqlparse
>    (package-with-python2 python-sqlparse))
> +
> +(define-public python-selenium
> +  (package
> +    (name "python-selenium")
> +    (version "2.53.1")
> +    (source
> +     (origin
> +       (method url-fetch)
> +       (uri (pypi-uri "selenium" version))
> +       (sha256
> +        (base32
> +         "1pj0ci4dxwfa0pkvjc60k7pw74zy6ay473mnzckbb58jlhc994jk"))))
> +    (build-system python-build-system)
> +    ;; FIXME webdriver/firefox contains pre-build binaries. Build them in
> +    ;; guix, but the source is not included.

Does Selenium work at all without these blobs?

Did you check what other free distros do about this? Here's a link to
the Debian packaging:
https://sources.debian.net/src/python-selenium/