Re: checklicenses.py

[João Valverde <joao.valverde () tecnico ulisboa pt>]

On 08/05/2016 11:21 AM, Guy Harris 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?

No... too many CPAN dependencies.
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