[racket-dev] The Clark XML tests & licensing

Oh, but I see that this doesn't actually create the files. Probably
something needs to be added to the library.

Sorry.

Robby

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Robby Findler
<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> I think you want 'inflate'. IIUC, .zip files contain 'pkzip'-format
> compressed stuff.
>
> Robby
>
> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <samth at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Robby Findler
>> <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>>> Doesn't file/gunzip do that?
>>
>> From the documentation, that seems to be about files that use gzip,
>> not zip.  I didn't think they were the same, but I don't know much
>> about this stuff.
>>
>> Trying it, it doesn't seem to work:
>>
>> -> (gunzip "xmltest.zip")
>> ; gnu-unzip: bad header [,bt for context]
>>
>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <samth at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>>>> Summary: we are currently violating the license of James Clark's XML
>>>> test suite, and should fix this.
>>>>
>>>> Currently, the `tests/xml' directory [1] contains a comprehensive
>>>> collection tests for XML parsing from James Clark [2].  The
>>>> readme.html file [3] in that directory states the license of that test
>>>> suite:
>>>>
>>>>  Copyright (C) 1998 James Clark. All rights reserved. Permission is
>>>>  granted to copy and modify this collection in any way for internal use
>>>>  within a company or organization. Permission is granted to
>>>>  redistribute the file <code>xmltest.zip</code> containing this
>>>>  collection to third parties provided that no modifications of any kind
>>>>  are made to this file. Note that permission to distribute the
>>>>  collection in any other form is not granted.
>>>>
>>>> See in particular the last sentence.  We're clearly violating this
>>>> license, since we distribute the unzipped collection.  We need to fix
>>>> this.
>>>>
>>>> Fortunately, this should be easy to fix.  We need to do the following:
>>>>
>>>> 1. Remove the 'clark-tests' directory.
>>>> 2. Add the 'xmltest.zip' file.
>>>> 3. Unzip the file on-demand when running the tests.
>>>>
>>>> Currently, we don't have a Racket interface to unzip files.  We could
>>>> use the command-line 'unzip' tool, or write such an interface., or
>>>> perhaps someone's already written one.
>>>>
>>>> [1] https://github.com/plt/racket/tree/master/collects/tests/xml/clark-tests
>>>> [2] ftp://ftp.jclark.com/pub/xml/xmltest.zip
>>>> [3] https://github.com/plt/racket/blob/master/collects/tests/xml/clark-tests/readme.html
>>>> --
>>>> sam th
>>>> samth at ccs.neu.edu
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> sam th
>> samth at ccs.neu.edu