Hello Assaf! First of all, let me congratulate you for the Savannah Automatic Evaluator (SAE, or whatever it should be called) of yours --- quite impressive! I think it's a tool that deserves Savannah hackers' attention, because even in a prototypical stage it can be significantly helpful for their evaluation tasks. I'm CC'ing the Savannah hacker's mailing list because I think this SAE subject is of interest for them. Please, forgive me if that's not the case.
I decided to use the SAE to do my evaluations so I can speed them up and help to test and improve the tool. For instance, when evaluating the blimpserver[1] submission I saw that SAE detects XML files as "not-text" and skips the license check on them. That's not correct as XML may be handcrafted source. Then I went to your online remote SAE service[2] so I could run it on blimpserver's source tree and easily point you to the results in my bug report, but found out two problems preventing me from using it: zip is yet not supported and the address Savannah gives to the package is https://savannah.gnu.org/task/download.php?file_id=34880 which doesn't match the expected regular expression ^(https?|ftp)://[A-Za-z0-9\_\.\/-]*\.tar\.(gz|bz2|xz)$ Why not just fetch whatever is at the given URL and then run 'file -i' on it and only then discriminate for the method of access? Let's discuss about and improve SAE while working on the evaluations. Footnotes: [1] https://savannah.gnu.org/task/?13738 [2] http://gnueval.housegordon.org/ -- ,= ,-_-. =. Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro (oitofelix) [0x28D618AF] ((_/)o o(\_)) http://oitofelix.freeshell.org/ `-'(. .)`-' irc://chat.freenode.org/oitofelix \_/ xmpp:[email protected] GNU ccd2cue maintainer GNU web translation team coordinator (Brazilian Portuguese) GNU audio and video maintainer DMOZ free software editor (Portuguese) UFU FAMAT PET member [GNU DISCLAIMER] I'm a GNU hacker, but my views don't necessarily match those of the GNU project. Hereby I express my own opinion, style and perception, in good faith, aiming the betterment of GNU.
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