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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Coverity Scan
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 08:35:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140425083500.GA5666@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5359F391.8060309@tiscali.co.uk>

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On Apr 25 06:33, David Stacey wrote:
> Coverity Scan [1] is a commercial (paid for) static analysis tool, but
> they offer it to Open Source programmes for free. I was having a browse
> through the list of Open Source programmes using Coverity Scan, and
> noticed that Cygwin wasn't listed. Would there be any interest in
> analysing the cygwin1.dll source code on a fairly regular basis? If so,
> I would be happy to have a go at setting up an analysis job for Cygwin.
> 
> I would imagine this would be of interest to CGF, Corinna and anyone
> else who regularly updates the Cygwin source code. Obviously, this is
> only worth doing if the analysis results are looked at and acted upon.

Depends.  If the report contains lots of false positives, it's getting
annoying pretty quickly.

> There are some conditions associated with using Coverity Scan [2]. The
> one thing that jumps out is that our relationship with RedHat might be
> a stumbling block. We can but ask - the worst that can happen is that
> they politely decline.

They will.  #7 won't fly due to the buyout license clause.

> There have been a few hints on this list about a possible move from CVS
> to git. If such a move were on the cards then that should probably
> happen first - I wouldn't want the nugatory effort of getting this
> working from CVS only to have to change it almost immediately.

Yeah, I'm n ot exactly looking forward to it since I'm very familiar
with CVS or SVN, but have nothing but trouble with git.  But since
everybody else is so very happy with git, I guess I'll have to adapt.
Teeth-gnashingly.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-25  8:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-25  5:33 David Stacey
2014-04-25  8:35 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2014-04-25 12:20   ` David Stacey
2014-04-25 13:33     ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-04-25 15:53   ` Christopher Faylor
2014-04-25 19:09     ` David Arnstein
2014-05-16 20:03     ` David Stacey
2014-05-16 20:35       ` Jeffrey Altman
2014-05-17 16:13         ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-05-17 10:13       ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-05-17 23:13         ` David Stacey
2014-05-19  8:36           ` Corinna Vinschen
     [not found] <CAO1jNwuZhQoyccTTGJWcdUJHHQjHeYc5GZEyG-Hci5kfLaMcTA@mail.gmail.com>
2014-04-25  9:10 ` Fwd: " Jan Nijtmans
2014-04-25 12:17   ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-04-25 15:55     ` Christopher Faylor

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