Re: Compliance with Boost copyright and license guidelines

From: Hans Dembinski (hans.dembinski_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-08-21 08:12:32

> On 20. Aug 2019, at 21:40, Rene Rivera via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 2:35 PM Raffi Enficiaud via Boost <
> boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 
>> On 19.08.19 17:45, Rene Rivera via Boost wrote:
>>> On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 2:57 AM Hans Dembinski via Boost <
>>> boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> [snip]
>>> 
>>> It would be fantastic to see a PR for the existing library check Python
>>> program <
>>> 
>> https://github.com/boostorg/boost/blob/develop/status/boost_check_library.py
>>> .
>>> as that would achieve the goal of providing continuous visibility on a
>> per
>>> branch and per library basis as you suggest.
>>> 
>> 
>> Do you want to run inspect using this python script or do you want a
>> full implementation of inspect in python?
>> 
> 
> We can start with the license checks. And eventually add more inspect
> functionality if needed. But the goal is not to run the inspect program
> itself preferring to "port" the functionality over.

Great, I would like to give it a shot. I am a senior Python developer.

Just running `python status/boost_check_library.py` locally gives an error instead of a helpful usage message. I will work on improving that as well.

Best regards,
Hans