Hi Kotrappa,

 

The CSV approach is a good idea.  The code already has some support for
this.  There are some issues to be worked out on how to deal with multiple
worksheets and mapping that to the csv.

 

We ran into the same issue with the license list excel file.  We solved this
by creating external .txt files and hyperlinking from the spreadsheet to the
text files.  Do you think this approach would work for you?  You can see an
example at
http://git.spdx.org/?p=license-list.git;a=blob_plain;f=spdx_licenselist_v2.0
rc3.xls;hb=HEAD

 

 

I'm pretty booked for the next 2-3 weeks with SPDX 2.0 work, so it will be a
while before I can get to the fix.

 

If you or others on the distribution list would like to create a fix and
send me a patch or a pull request on the github clone
(https://github.com/goneall/SPDX-Tools), I can do a quick build.

 

Another approach would be to pre-process the SPDX document to check for the
license text length and truncate it with a warning.

 

Best regards,

Gary

 

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]

Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2015 12:18 AM
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: RE: SPDX tools 1.2.9 - "Per File Info" sheet is kept blank when
"TagToSpreadsheet" has been run

 

Hello Gary,

 

In your busy work, Sorry to ask you on the below bug.

 

Do you have any updates on resolving this issue?

Since it is limitation of excel, how do you plan to resolve this?

 

One possible solution would be, can we have one more option in tool to
convert .spdx into .CSV files? 

I mean .spdx would be converted to "<PackageName_version>_PerFileInfo.CSV",
"<PackageName_version>_ExtractLicInfo.CSV" etc,

In this way, we can avoid the limitation of excel cell, and since .CSV can
be text file, limitation won't exist in CSV file.

 

Best regards,

Kotrappa.

 

 

 

 

From: Gary O'Neall [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: 02 February 2015 02:27
To: Kotrappa DeverShetty (WT01 - Manufacturing & Hi Tech)
Cc: [email protected]; Ravishankar T.S (WT01 - Manufacturing & Hi
Tech)
Subject: RE: SPDX tools 1.2.9 - "Per File Info" sheet is kept blank when
"TagToSpreadsheet" has been run

 

Hi Kotrappa,

 

It appears you have hit a limitation in Microsoft Excel.

 

When I ran the utility against libXcursor, I got the following error
message:

 

Unexpected error translating the tag-value to spreadsheet: The maximum
length of cell contents (text) is 32,767 characters

 

This was due to  the GPL 3 text being added as an extracted license.

 

I do think there is a bug in the error message - it could be more
descriptive.  I added a bug report to address this:
https://bugs.linuxfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1251

 

I'll take a look at possible solutions after I finish upgrading the tools to
the new SPDX 2.0 spec.

 

Let me know if that error message was not produced - it could indicate
another bug.

 

Gary

 

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]

Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 5:29 AM
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: SPDX tools 1.2.9 - "Per File Info" sheet is kept blank when
"TagToSpreadsheet" has been run

 

Hello Gary,

 

For the attached .spdx files, the SPDX tools 1.2.9 which you shared in your
last email does not work.

"Per File Info" is kept blank when .spdx is converted to Spreadsheet.

Please let us know if there is any discrepancy in input .spdx files.

 

Thanks & Regards

Kotrappa.

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