Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] using grep to scan projects

[Karl Berry]

Hi Nicodemo,

    Hi, I've been looking into using grep as a tool to scan projects that
    might not meet the hosting requirements of Savannah.

One other thing I tried was to grep for the word Copyright (in
essentially the same way you write), since nearly every text file should
have it.  That was ok, but I never packaged it into anything worth
mentioning.

    I was wondering if there has been any advance in using tools to make
    the process a little easier. 

Not that I am aware of, unfortunately.  The people who said they were
going to work on it have not.

I suggest checking in your grep command and the supporting files into
the chkpkglic project on savannah (and make yourself a member).  Leo
(the owner) is one of the no-shows for this work, but at least it gives
us a place to put stuff :).

    Maybe, for the Blender project which has
    7000+ files, I am distracting myself.

Checking 7000 files by hand does not seem reasonable to me, so I don't
think it's just a distraction.

karl