[Laszlo-dev] using svn to monitor jar changes

[Benjamin Shine]

We're open source, and we use other open source projects, which have  
various licenses, and which we (therefore) need to keep track of, to  
stay good legal open source.

You know what would be a useful standalone contribution? A script  
that checks svn for additions, deletions, or modifications to the 3rd  
party components anywhere in the source tree since a particular  
revision number.

I think a search for changes to things named *.jar, *.zip, .tar,  
or .tar.gz, or *.exe would cover almost everything we've changed in  
the last six months. To be really thorough it should also search for  
added/changed/deleted files named LICENSE* or COPYRIGHT* or CREDITS*.

Any shell scripters out there who can take a shot at this?

For example, it should report that in r878 we replaced tomcat  
5.0.24.zip with 5.0.30.zip (in vendor/) and in r408 we added several  
new jars and zips, and in r595 we deleted a version of NullSoft  
Installer.

-ben

benjamin shine
software engineer
ben at laszlosystems.com