@davidcarlos pointed out that there is a python port of the ruby gem github uses to detect languages [1]. Using this lib could be a great improvement to kiskadee, since we would avoid empty analyses coming from anitya updates on non-C/C++ packages.

[1] https://github.com/douban/linguist

@athoscr This port is dead. It is not updated since 2016. My proposal is to use a minimal container, using as entrypoint the ruby gem (that is used by github https://github.com/github/linguist). In this way, we can find out if the source code that we are analyzing is implemented in one of the languages that we support (c/c++).

That would work for me. I am not even sure if it would need to be a container. It would be nice to have the lingust gem packaged in a few distros though...

The port use a dependency that is breaking when installed with python3. The upstream dependency (https://github.com/douban/PyCharlockHolmes) have added python 3 support, but not released a new version on pypi. I opened an issue (https://github.com/douban/PyCharlockHolmes/issues/8) on the repository, asking for a new release with python 3 support. I will install the dependency from the repository, and try to install the port again.

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