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

[Ludovic Courtès]

John Darrington <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 07:33:10PM +0200, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
>      John Darrington <address@hidden> skribis:
>      
>      > 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.
>      
>      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?   :-)
>      
> For this reasons, most distos which ship postgres put the libpq &c in a 
> seperate package.
> Guix so far as I can see is the only one which does not.  Should we split 
> postgres into
> two (or more) outputs ?

Why not, again depending on the cost/benefit ratio in terms of closure
size and usability.

Ludo’.