nexB/deltacode

Merge DeltaCode into ScanCode

mjherzog opened this issue · 3 comments

We need to plan for merging DeltaCode into ScanCode Toolkit sooner than later. Since DeltaCode operates on Scan files we should include in ScanCode TK at a minimum in order to treat it as a TK module and keep it in synch with the other TK modules. This will require design especially since ScanCode operates on a pair of Scan files and is therefore not an obvious candidate for running from the main ScanCode command line.

We could follow an approach similar to extractcode, which has its own cli command and set of options.

This sounds right.

Reconsidering whether this is actually a good idea. We probably should avoid over loading ScanCode Toolkit with too many disparate functions.