On 03/08/2013 04:04 PM, Martin von Gagern wrote: > Hi! > Hi Martin. > The sc_copyright_check in maint.mk won't handle a copyright notice > spanning multiple lines. For wdiff I'll likely disable that check for > this reason, since keeping 9 years in a single copyright line for the > texi file doesn't agree with my own ideas of readable sources. > > It would be great if you could come up with some solution which does > that check but takes copyright lines spanning multiple lines into > account. Probably a perl script, I guess. > > I dimly remember some discussion about perl for syntax checks: > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs/28103/focus=28257 > Did anything ever come out of this? > No, sadly (I never posted the hinted patches, and even as of today, I have none to post, not even half-finished). Even more sadly, I'm not going to write them anytime soon. So, if you or anyone else wants to pick up the ball and resurrect the idea, feel free to; as for me, I'd be happy to see this idea finally implemented (and once it is, I'd start covering the existing Automake syntax check to the use of the new framework).
> Doesn't look that way to me, but I > don't closely follow the list. > > Greetings, > Martin von Gagern Thanks, and sorry, Stefano
