[bug#42085] [PATCH 4/6] gnu: Add python-nodeenv.

[Vinicius Monego]

Em seg, 2020-07-20 às 23:25 +0200, Marius Bakke escreveu:

> We often omit the python- prefix for packages that are not used as a
> library, i.e. Python packages that produce a "normal program".  Is
> that
> the case here?

It does provide an executable. It's a tool like virtualenv, but for
Node packages instead of Python.

> Perhaps it would make sense to place this in (gnu packages node) as
> simply "nodeenv"?

IIUC the {language} modules are for packages affiliated with the
foundation behind the language, or other compiler or interpreter
implementations. That's not the case here.

> > +    (native-inputs
> > +     `(("python-coverage" ,python-coverage)
> > +       ("python-flake8" ,python-flake8)
> > +       ("python-mock" ,python-mock)
> > +       ("python-pytest" ,python-pytest)
> > +       ("python-tox" ,python-tox)))
> 
> 'python-tox' can probably be removed since we call out to pytest
> directly.  Some packages needlessly test for it though, in that case
> you
> can remove it from requirements-dev.txt with substitute*.

Removed. I also removed flake8, since it's only used in the tox.ini
file.