Ken McDonell <kenj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> [...]
> Where did the getdate.y source come from?
The initial pcp commit for getdate.y identified gnulib as the source.
(It would ideally have given the exact version.)
> The closest I can find is the (renamed from getdate.y)
> parse-datetime.y in the lib dir from
> git://git.savannah.gnu.org/gnulib.git but this contains at least one
> critical difference compared to getdate.y in the area where qa/752
> is breaking.
We'd have to forward-port that patch, except ...
> [...]
> (c) where possible provide some mechanism to track and (better)
> refresh our version when the external version moves (including
> reapplying PCP-specific patches, as has obviously been done with
> getdate.y).
... a complication with this is that gnulib is now GPL3-licensed.
Because PCP is LGPL2+/GPL2+, scox was forced to import a pre-GPL3
snapshot of the gnulib code. That means that any upstream
improvements need to be sort of reinvented.
- FChE
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