On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 06:22:44AM +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 04:43:09PM -0600, Jerry James wrote: > > I made the possibly controversial decision to write opam2rpm in > > python. I did this so that I could borrow code and ideas from other > > spec file generators, many of which are written in python. If this > > proves to be a sticking point with the other OCaml package > > maintainers, I am not opposed to porting it to OCaml, but will need a > > fair amount of help to do so. > I don't think this should be controversial. Both ocaml and python are > good languages to write this kind of tool, but what's more important is > dependencies and prior art that can be copied. And python wins in this > regard because of all the other converters that are already there. > > > The current version owes much to go2rpm. Thank you, go2rpm developers! > > 6. Talk to the go2rpm developers about breaking licensing.py and > > spdx_to_fedora.csv out into a separate project. Note that I fixed > > some incorrect LGPL entries in the version in opam2rpm. > > No, please don't do that. go2rpm should not have done that either. https://pagure.io/GoSIG/go2rpm/pull-request/12 > The original location of licensing.py is in rust2rpm, and it should not > be copied. It is an importable python module: > >>> from rust2rpm import licensing > >>> licensing.translate_license_fedora('GPL-2.0 or GPL-2.0-or-later') > Upstream license tag GPL-2.0 translated to GPLv2 > Upstream license tag GPL-2.0-or-later translated to GPLv2+ > ('GPLv2 or GPLv2+', None) > > It gets occasionally updated when people report missing licenses or > translation bugs, and having _multiple_ copies in the distro is just > going to lead to frustration. > > If there's anything missing or broken in the canonical version, please > open a bug against rust2rpm. > > Longer-term, I think the licensing submodule could become more > prominent and a top-level thing of its own. The data should be > converted from CSV to something sane. We should try to coalesce all > the other redundant lists of licenses, including > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main#Software_License_List. > > Zbyszek _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
