On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Philippe Ombredanne <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 4:23 AM, ahi <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > First allow me to introduce myself, My name is Ahmed Hisham I am > > currently a CS student at the German University in Cairo. I hope to > > spend the summer working on the SPDX parser libraries project list on > > the idea page at > > > http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/gsoc/gsoc-2014-spdx-projects > . > > Hello Ahmed! > Thank you for your interest in SPDX. > What else can you tell us about you? > > > I have a couple of questions about the project, regarding what version > > of the spec is it expected to support. > > Should it support older version than the current spec ? > > I do not think that would very be valuable to support 1.0 and 1.1. > Best would be to support the newest (1.2) and next version (2.0) IMHO. > Are there examples, i.e. complete files, with headers, etc. that are available for the 1.2 and 2.0 formats? I can find some snippets available but nothing that shows me what a complete SPDX file would look like. > > > Should it partially support the upcoming spec 2.0 ? If so is there a > > publicly available working draft? > > I say partially as the spec is expected to be release in august and by > > then the summer of code will be at its end. > > Yes that would work best. > > Now which language would you have in mind? > Hint: Java is already covered. > My choices would be Python, Go, JavaScript and Ruby in this order. > I'm writing one in perl because perl is widely used in Debian. I want to write a DEP5 to SPDX converter. This way I can generate a complete software BoM from an Debian or Debian-derived machine and put it into a tool like FOSSology. I'd also like to be able to do the reverse; use SPDX data to enable the generation of DEP5 files, though the use case here is a bit contrived. Cheers, Jeremiah > > Cordially > > -- > Philippe Ombredanne > _______________________________________________ > Spdx-tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-tech > -- ============================================= Jeremiah C. Foster GENIVI Community Manager Pelagicore AB Ekelundsgatan 4, 6tr, SE-411 18 Gothenburg, Sweden Mobile: +46 (0)730 93 0506 E-Mail: [email protected] ============================================= === NOTE === The information contained in this E-mail message is intended only for use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. =============
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