Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add jq

[Jelle Licht]

From jq's README:

To get regexp support you'll also need to install Oniguruma (note that jq's tests require regexp support to pass).

So it seems to be an optional dependency (which allows tests to pass and adds functionality). I could make it a build-time dependency, or not.

What is the 'guix' way of handling these cases?

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Jelle

2016-03-26 23:45 GMT+01:00 Leo Famulari <address@hidden>:

On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 11:06:15PM +0100, Jelle Licht wrote:
> +    (inputs
> +     `(("oniguruma" ,oniguruma)))

[...]

> +    (description "jq is like sed for JSON data – you can use it to slice and
> +filter and map and transform structured data with the same ease that sed, awk,
> +grep and friends let you play with text.  It is written in portable C, and it
> +has zero runtime dependencies.  jq can mangle the data format that you have
       ^-----------------------^

Since oniguruma is listed as a run-time dependency, does this mean the
description is wrong? Or is oniguruma only needed to build?