Re: (not) testing Rust packages?!

[Hartmut Goebel]

Am 31.01.20 um 19:50 schrieb John Soo:
>> On Jan 29, 2020, at 11:01 AM, Andreas Rottmann <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> I'm a new to Guix, and am not sure what you mean by "safely" and
>> "unwanted store outputs". Running `cargo test` takes the crate source,
>> and the closure of any `dependencies` and `dev-dependencies`, and
>> produces no real artifacts that make sense to put in the store, as far
>> as I can see. The only noteworthy artifact is the stdout/stderr ouput
>> produced, as well as the exit status, but I guess that's not relevant to
>> the store.
> Oh I could see how “safely” would be confusing. I meant that we would not 
> populate anything in the store as you suggest.

If `cargo test` does not "install" any file - and this is what I would
expect it to do, since this is what `cargo install` - running `cargo
test` is save.

Neither the exit status nor the stderr/stdout output are effecting the
store.


> What do you think? 


Go ahead! :-)

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Hartmut Goebel

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