Cool project - add some unit tests!

[zharben]

This piqued my interest, and I was about to start trying it out, but then I noticed you haven't written any unit tests yet! I know you just started this recently, but if you're at all interested in getting support/code contributions, and adoption, you must add some test coverage!

I'm excited to see where you take this project. Seems like a good approach as an alternative to PEX.

[boegel]

+1

[mbachry]

Totally agreed. I plan to to hook it up to travis soon. My biggest priority right now is to successfully build and run Sentry (https://getsentry.com/welcome/): a big, very zip unsafe app. I'm almost there and once I'm done, I plan to use Sentry build as a canary to detect regressions. I hope to add some regular unit tests too.

[zharben]

Thanks, Marcin! I'm excited to follow your progress.

[boegel]

I'm interested in playing around with exxo to create stand-alone easy-to-distribute releases of EasyBuild (http://hpcugent.github.io/easybuild).

I need to fix some known issues w.r.t. making it zip-safe however, cfr. easybuilders/easybuild-framework#1399

[mbachry]

@boegel I added few zip safety hacks in 0.0.5 version. They should improve compatibility with many third-party packages. I'm now able to build Sentry project (a huge Django app) and almost Juniper notebook (the problem here is not related to zip safety though).

I curious if new hack already help with EasyBuild framework. Of course, proper zip safety fix is always better.

[mbachry]

Btw. you can read about the hacks here.

[boegel]

@mbachry: thanks for the update, this looks very useful indeed!

I'm interested in making EasyBuild truly zip-safe, but this can certainly help to play around with exxo earlier.

@fgeorgatos: maybe this is something for you to play around with next week during the hackathon/user meeting?