Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add python-hdf4.

[Thomas Danckaert]

From: Marius Bakke <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add python-hdf4.
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 18:09:07 +0100

> Thomas Danckaert <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Hi Guix,
> >
> > this patch adds python-hdf4.  I'm not sure if the line “Python-HDF4
> > is a fork of pyhdf.” in the description is necessary.  The original
> > and “official” pyhdf (http://hdfeos.org/software/pyhdf.php) is
> > somewhat outdated (e.g. doesn't support python3).
>
> The "official" pyhdf and this fork was released around the same 
> time and
> have the same version number. Confusing! But I'll take your word 
> that
> this one is better.

Yes, it seems it mirrors updates in the “official” one, and keeps the 
same version numbers.

> Regarding the patch, I wonder if it should go in (gnu packages 
> maths),
> similar to how we put PDF libraries in pdf.scm and XML in xml.scm 
> etc.
> But no strong opinion here.

I've wondered the same.  Right now, h5py, which is a similar package 
for HDF5, is also in python.scm, so I decided to add this package 
next to it.  As an aside, I find many packages in maths.scm are not 
really “mathy” (“science” maybe), but anyway :-)

> The 'check' phase seems to run the build again, and prints at the 
> end
> "Ran 0 tests in 0.000s". Looking at the Github ".travis.yml", the CI
> tool runs the command "nosetests" instead of 'python setup.py test' 
> like
> python-build-system does by default. Can you try replacing the 
> 'check'
> phase with that command? You'll need 'python-nose' as a 
> native-input.

I hadn't noticed that. This patch adds nosetests, but that just 
prints “Ran 0 tests in .005s”, so it seems there are no tests.  Shall 
we just delete the 'check' phase?

Other changes applied!

thank you,

Thomas

From 11a2988febff79775eb31bc8e5da09fdea7d2269 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Danckaert <address@hidden>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 11:17:44 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add python-hdf4.

* gnu/packages/python.scm (python-hdf4, python2-hdf4): New variables.
---
 gnu/packages/python.scm | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/python.scm b/gnu/packages/python.scm
index bfa7eae..cc53f76 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/python.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/python.scm
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 ;;; Copyright © 2016 Arun Isaac <address@hidden>
 ;;; Copyright © 2016 Julien Lepiller <address@hidden>
 ;;; Copyright © 2016 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <address@hidden>
+;;; Copyright © 2016 Thomas Danckaert <address@hidden>
 ;;;
 ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
 ;;;
@@ -715,6 +716,41 @@ certificate returned by the server to which a connection 
has been established,
 and verifies that it matches the intended target hostname.")
     (license license:psfl)))
 
+(define-public python-hdf4
+  (package
+   (name "python-hdf4")
+   (version "0.9")
+   (source
+    (origin
+      (method url-fetch)
+      (uri (pypi-uri name version))
+      (sha256
+       (base32
+        "1hjiyrxvxk9817qyqky3nar4y3fs4z8wxz0n884zzb5wi6skrjks"))))
+   (build-system python-build-system)
+   (native-inputs `(("nose" ,python-nose)))
+   (propagated-inputs `(("numpy" ,python-numpy)))
+   (inputs
+    `(("hdf4" ,hdf4)
+      ("libjpeg" ,libjpeg)
+      ("zlib" ,zlib)))
+   (arguments
+    `(#:phases
+      (modify-phases %standard-phases
+        (replace 'check
+                 (lambda _ (zero? (system* "nosetests")))))))
+   (home-page "https://github.com/fhs/python-hdf4";)
+   (synopsis "Python interface to the NCSA HDF4 library")
+   (description
+    "Python-HDF4 is a python wrapper around the NCSA HDF version 4 library,
+which implements the SD (Scientific Dataset), VS (Vdata) and V (Vgroup) API’s.
+NetCDF files can also be read and modified.  Python-HDF4 is a fork of
address@hidden://hdfeos.org/software/pyhdf.php,pyhdf}.")
+   (license license:expat)))
+
+(define-public python2-hdf4
+  (package-with-python2 python-hdf4))
+
 (define-public python-h5py
   (package
     (name "python-h5py")
-- 
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