I agree with the reporter in RAT-270, that error messages, and all kind of trouble (aka invalid files should *always* be logged to the console. any work in that direction would be welcome. (After all, that's whatt log.warn(), and log.error() are for.)
Jochen On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 10:19 PM P. Ottlinger <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > as more and more people are changing to docker/container-based builds it > would make more sense IMHO to output unappropriate files directly to the > build console instead of relying on target/rat.txt. > > Discussion in > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RAT-270 > shows that some people are confused and frustrated by the current behaviour. > > Therefore I'd propose to change the default value of > rat.consoleOutput from false to true to allow logging all invalid files. > > Any opinions/objections? > > Thanks, > Phil > > -- Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em. -- (Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time)
