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Re: [PATCH] gnu: pspp: Update to 0.10.0
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Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] gnu: pspp: Update to 0.10.0 |
Date: |
Sun, 27 Mar 2016 19:33:10 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
John Darrington <address@hidden> skribis:
> ncurses is optional for pspp - the terminal behaviour is nicer if you have it.
>
> perl-text-diff is not used by pspp except in its self tests. There is one
> test
> which needs it. If you don't have it that test is skipped.
>
> Postgres ships with a client interface library called libpq - using it is
> optional
> in pspp. If you have it, it allows pspp to directly connect to postgres
> databases.
Could you post an updated patch?
I guess the PostgreSQL dependency might be debatable since it would
probably significantly increase the closure size. Could you check ‘guix
size’ and decide whether adding this dependency is a good thing, based
on its size/benefit ratio? :-)
TIA!
Ludo’.