Re: [boost] Making copyright holders easier to parse

-----Original Message----- From: Boost On Behalf Of Paul A Bristow via Boost Sent: 27 July 2019 10:14 To: boost@lists.boost.org Cc: pbristow@hetp.u-net.com Subject: Re: [boost] Making copyright holders easier to parse

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-----Original Message----- From: Boost On Behalf Of Antony Polukhin via Boost Sent: 27 July 2019 05:46 To: boost@lists.boost.org List Cc: Antony Polukhin Subject: Re: [boost] Making copyright holders easier to parse

On Sat, Jul 27, 2019, 04:44 Giovanni Mascellani via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote: <...>

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My question is: are you interested in this kind of patches? Of course I would still go through the ordinary patch submission procedure. I am just asking if this kind of patches would be well received or not.

I have another suggestion. We already have the inspect program written in C++ which 'parses' and emits an html report on missing copyright (and many other transgressions of Boot guidelines). See https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/release/tools/inspect/inspect.cpp and copyright_check.cpp and .hpp I suspect that this could easily be altered to add an output to a file of copyright authors(s) and date(s) in whatever format and file type is easiest for Debian to deal with. For example a test file containing Library_name Author(s)_name Copyright_Date(s) ... The build tools are in I:\boost\tools\inspect If this works, I feel we could use this updated version in Boost itself. Other packagers and those needing to jump through copyright and GDPR hoops might find helpful. This would avoid a paroxysm in our extensive CI system 😊 Paul Paul A. Bristow Prizet Farmhouse Kendal, Cumbria LA8 8AB UK