Greetings all,
As we are working through the SPDX goals for next year, there were a lot of suggestions made which involve improvements to the SPDX tools. On the tech call this week, we also talked about some changes that would improve the performance and help with the maintainability of the Java libraries. We are also getting quite a bit more interest in contributing to the tools. With this increased activity on the tools code, I would like to float the idea of breaking the current SPDX tools into more than one repo. This could be limited to the Java tools or it could apply to the other language bindings as well. I would propose 3 repos: - RDF/XML libraries - libraries that can read/write the RDF/XML code - Tag libraries - parsers and writers for the tag/value format - Tools - Tools which use the 2 above libraries to translate, pretty print, validate documents (all of the existing tools) The advantage would be to reduce the coordination necessary between the changes in the tag/value code and the RDF/XML code. It would also allow the building of tools with a smaller footprint if only one of the formats are required. The disadvantage is if there are changes needed in both tag/value and RDF for the tools, commits and versions would need to be coordinated across the repos. Please let me know your thoughts. Thanks, Gary ------------------------------------------------- Gary O'Neall Principal Consultant Source Auditor Inc. Mobile: 408.805.0586 Email: <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]
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