Re: [PATCH] gnu: pspp: Update to 0.10.0

[Ludovic Courtès]

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’.