Re: [PATCH]: gnu: shogun: Remove non-free source files.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

>> There are functions in src/shogun/kernel/Kernel.{cpp,h} that are also
>> released under non-free terms, but they are enclosed in #ifdef
>> statements and the make flags we pass disable these functions at build
>> time.
>
> This is not sufficient.  We will need to completely remove the non-free
> functions from the source code using a snippet.  We cannot use a patch
> because the patch would contain the non-free code.

Indeed (I thought Kernel.{cpp,h} were the files being removed.)

I guess there are two ways to address this: have a snippet that reads
these two files line by line (with ‘read-line’ from (ice-9 rdelim)) and
dismisses files within the #ifdef.

If that turns out to be impractical, for instance because there are
nested #ifdefs or computed conditionals, then we’ll have to host a
cleaned up source tarball or repo somewhere.

Ricardo: could you look into it?

Thanks,
Ludo’.