Bug#721598: ITP: python-vcs -- Various version control systems management abstraction layer

[Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de>]

Hi Jelmer,

On Mo 09 Sep 2013 14:56:12 CEST Jelmer Vernooij wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 01:35:06PM +0200, Mike Gabriel wrote:
> > Hi Jelmer,
> >
> > On Mo 02 Sep 2013 21:08:50 CEST Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> >
> > >On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 10:36:49AM +0200, Mike Gabriel wrote:
> > >>Package: wnpp
> > >>Severity: wishlist
> > >>Owner: Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de>
> > >>
> > >>* Package name    : python-vcs
> > >>  Version         : 0.4.0
> > >>  Upstream Author : Marcin Ku??mi??ski
> > >><https://github.com/codeinn/vcs/issues>
> > >>* URL             : https://github.com/codeinn/vcs/
> > >>* License         : Expat
> > >>  Programming Lang: Python
> > >>  Description     : Various version control systems management
> > >>abstraction layer
> > >>
> > >> Python vcs is an abstraction layer on top of various
> > >>(Mercurial, Git, as extra
> > >> backends: SVN, Bazaar) version control systems. It is designed as a
> > >> feature-rich Python library with a clear API Reference.
> > >> .
> > >> Features
> > >>    - Common API for SCM backends
> > >>    - Fetching repositories data lazily
> > >>    - Simple caching mechanism so we don???t hit repo too often
> > >>    - In-memory commits API
> > >>    - Command-line interface
> > >> .
> > >> Incoming
> > >>    - Full working directories support
> > >>    - Extra backends: Subversion, Bazaar
> > >Where are the extra backends? I don't see them in the linked
> > >upstream source code.
> >
> > I cannot tell you where the backends yet are. Currently, I am
> > struggling with a licensing issue in vcs that you may be able to
> > solve.
> >
> > For further info on this see this issue report on github:
> > https://github.com/codeinn/vcs/issues/118
>
> It looks like Marcin already followed up to this. Dulwich and that file are
> GPLv2 or later.

I just dropped another comment on #118. As dulwich is GPL-2+ I pointed  
out the using dulwich in vcs requires vcs getting relicensed to a  
license that is GPL-2+ compatible.

Greets,
Mike


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