[Development] Support for *Notes and UpstreamFiles fields in qt_attributions.json files

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Tue Feb 14 20:24:43 CET 2023


On Tuesday, 14 February 2023 07:07:00 PST Kai Köhne via Development wrote:
> First, let's agree that JSON sucks for the task at hand. It doesn't have any
> explicit support for comments, and no support for multi-line strings
> (though our implementation tolerates this).

How about switching to YAML?

Those files are consumed by qtattributionsscanner. That looks like a very 
simple application that can be rewritten in Python, or it could launch Python 
or yq to convert YAML to JSON on the fly.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Cloud Software Architect - Intel DCAI Cloud Engineering
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