Re: checklicenses.py

[Graham Bloice <graham.bloice () trihedral com>]

On 5 August 2016 at 11:21, Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> wrote:

> On Aug 5, 2016, at 2:52 AM, Graham Bloice <graham.bloice () trihedral com>
> wrote:
>
> > I did look a bit for licensecheck and it appears to be a Perl script
> available as a Debian (and RPM) package devscripts as suggested by João, a
> package for Debian package maintainers.  As such, it isn't available for
> Windows.  The checklicenses.py script should probably check for the
> existence of licensecheck before trying to open it as a subprocess.
>
> Playing the fun game called "find the upstream" found
>
>         http://search.cpan.org/~jonass/App-Licensecheck-v3.0.
> 2/bin/licensecheck
>
> but that version appears to credit Jonas Smedegaard as one of the
> developers, while the version from Debian Jessie doesn't, so that doesn't
> appear to be the upstream version from Jessie.  I don't know whether
> Smedegaard and the Debian folk both started with the same earlier version
> but didn't end up there.
>
> Should we just grab some version that works and include it in the tools
> directory, so that we don't get mysterious failures when updating the
> version of Ubuntu on the buildbot and don't fail - or require somebody to
> dig up or install via CPAN - on systems that don't distribute it?
+1, that might even work on Windows.

-- 
Graham Bloice

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