04/08: gnu: Add ocaml-alcotest.

[julien lepiller]

roptat pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guix.

commit 69705efe9414c1964bcab7c214688ca153529385
Author: Julien Lepiller <address@hidden>
Date:   Fri Dec 30 11:47:27 2016 +0100

    gnu: Add ocaml-alcotest.
    
    * gnu/packages/ocaml.scm (ocaml-alcotest): New variable.
---
 gnu/packages/ocaml.scm |   31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/ocaml.scm b/gnu/packages/ocaml.scm
index 096c3f1..cfe2eb1 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/ocaml.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/ocaml.scm
@@ -1285,3 +1285,34 @@ removes deprecated and rarely used functions, alters 
some signatures and names,
 adds a few missing functions and fully exploits OCaml's newfound string
 immutability.")
     (license license:isc)))
+
+(define-public ocaml-alcotest
+  (package
+    (name "ocaml-alcotest")
+    (version "0.7.2")
+    (source (origin
+              (method url-fetch)
+              (uri (string-append 
"https://github.com/mirage/alcotest/releases/";
+                                  "download/" version "/alcotest-" version 
".tbz"))
+              (sha256
+                (base32
+                  "0g5lzk0gpfx4q8hyhr460gr4lab5wakfxsmhfwvb3yinxwzs95gc"))))
+    (build-system ocaml-build-system)
+    (arguments `(#:tests? #f
+                 #:build-flags (list "build")
+                 #:phases
+                 (modify-phases %standard-phases
+                   (delete 'configure))))
+    (native-inputs `(("opam" ,opam)
+                     ("topkg" ,ocaml-topkg)))
+    (propagated-inputs `(("fmt" ,ocaml-fmt)
+                         ("astring" ,ocaml-astring)))
+    (home-page "https://github.com/mirage/alcotest";)
+    (synopsis "Lightweight OCaml test framework")
+    (description "Alcotest exposes simple interface to perform unit tests.  It
+exposes a simple TESTABLE module type, a check function to assert test
+predicates and a run function to perform a list of unit -> unit test callbacks.
+Alcotest provides a quiet and colorful output where only faulty runs are fully
+displayed at the end of the run (with the full logs ready to inspect), with a
+simple (yet expressive) query language to select the tests to run.")
+    (license license:isc)))