Re: Import and export function of SPDX
Gary O'Neall
I believe the current SPDX tools will treat both RDF and Tag/Value in the
same manner - the documents will be readable by the tools but it will fail a
validation (missing required field). For the command line tools, the
conversions or pretty printing will still work but you will get warning.
In terms of making the fields optional - I can see this as a valuable change
for some of the use cases where that information is not available. There is
need to make sure the components described in the SPDX file match the actual
file artifacts, but that need can be filled by the per-file information.
Michel - Which use case best describes your use of SPDX
(http://spdx.org/wiki/spdx-20-use-cases). If there isn't a good
representation of your use case(s), could you provide a brief description?
I want to make sure we cover this when working on SPDX 2.0.
Thanks,
Gary
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same manner - the documents will be readable by the tools but it will fail a
validation (missing required field). For the command line tools, the
conversions or pretty printing will still work but you will get warning.
In terms of making the fields optional - I can see this as a valuable change
for some of the use cases where that information is not available. There is
need to make sure the components described in the SPDX file match the actual
file artifacts, but that need can be filled by the per-file information.
Michel - Which use case best describes your use of SPDX
(http://spdx.org/wiki/spdx-20-use-cases). If there isn't a good
representation of your use case(s), could you provide a brief description?
I want to make sure we cover this when working on SPDX 2.0.
Thanks,
Gary
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[mailto:spdx-tech-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Peter Williams
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 9:27 AM
To: RUFFIN, MICHEL (MICHEL)
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Subject: Re: Import and export function of SPDX
On Tue Jun 12 06:02:03 2012, RUFFIN, MICHEL (MICHEL) wrote:
filing a bug[1] so that we don't forget to look into the issue for the next
version.
As for your immediate issues of not having data for those fields, if you are
using RDF i'd just skip them altogether in the SPDX file. While your file
will technically be invalid all reasonable SPDX consumers will not have a
problem with that information being absent unless they need it to accomplish
their goal. (In which case they cannot use your SPDX files, anyway.) If you
are using the tag-value format skipping the fields altogether will, i think,
prove problematic due to that format's stricter syntactic constraints. (Kate
or Gary, can you confirm this?)
[1]:
https://bugs.linuxfoundation.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=SPDX&component=Spec
Peter
PS: I am cc-ing the technical working group because it's participants are
best suited to answer these sorts of issues.
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Subject: Re: Import and export function of SPDX
On Tue Jun 12 06:02:03 2012, RUFFIN, MICHEL (MICHEL) wrote:
We have an issue with 2 fields that do not exist in our database.: theI think making those fields optional would be advantageous. Would you mind
name of the archive file and the checksum. In the SPDX standard they
are mandatory and I do not see why would it be possibly to make them
optional?
filing a bug[1] so that we don't forget to look into the issue for the next
version.
As for your immediate issues of not having data for those fields, if you are
using RDF i'd just skip them altogether in the SPDX file. While your file
will technically be invalid all reasonable SPDX consumers will not have a
problem with that information being absent unless they need it to accomplish
their goal. (In which case they cannot use your SPDX files, anyway.) If you
are using the tag-value format skipping the fields altogether will, i think,
prove problematic due to that format's stricter syntactic constraints. (Kate
or Gary, can you confirm this?)
[1]:
https://bugs.linuxfoundation.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=SPDX&component=Spec
Peter
PS: I am cc-ing the technical working group because it's participants are
best suited to answer these sorts of issues.
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