Re: libpspp + Perl module somewhere down the road?

[John Darrington]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 08:41:27AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:

     John Darrington at one point mentioned that he was working on
     Python bindings as a side project for (I believe) an Australian
     company.  I do not know the status of that project or whether he
     would be willing to contribute the result back to PSPP.

Actually, it's a Perl module that I've done.   I did it by special
request of a third party.   I think it's mostly complete. Currently
it's sitting in a directory on my PC somewhere just waiting for me to
tidy it up a bit.

Integrating it into PSPP will require some (not too hard) changes to
the src/data tree.  One of the problems is that src/data depends on
libgsl --- but for a trivial reason --- it uses gsl_is_finite.  I
think we did this because the C99 isfinite function wasn't available
on BSD or something.  Unfortunately it's not yet part of gnulib
either.

If this problem was addressed, and a few other small ones, then I
think there'd be no major issues integrating my PSPP.pl module into
the core pspp source, if we want to do that.

J'
     

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