Re: API?

[Ben Pfaff]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> There are some drawbacks to this approach, and the API which you're
> asking about would certainly suit your purpose better, and it has been
> discussed before.  My proposal is to release a shared library (and
> possibly  a perl module too) which can be used to directly read/write
> system files.  Ben, the PSPP maintainer, however is reluctant to
> support such a library until the PSPP code is more stable.

For what it's worth, I still feel that way.

We get a fair number of requests for "file conversion" type
utilities.  I wonder if we should add a utility for doing that to
the PSPP codebase.
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