Daan, two quick questions:
1. What does your command line look like? 2. What does the contents of your .rat-excludes file look like? Thank you, Claude On Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM Daan <[email protected]> wrote: > I started testing with the convenience lib I was pointed to and found one > backwards incompatibility; We have a snapcraft.yaml that is mentioned in > our .rat-excludes file. It is still reported as /snap/snapcraft.yaml > > When the pull path is added (i.e. /snap/snapcraft.yaml instead of > snapcraft.yaml) the check passes with 0.17 but not with 0.16.1 > > It does not warrant a -1 so I can give you a non-binding +0 so far. > > On 2025/10/12 16:44:57 "P. Ottlinger" wrote: > > Dear friends of RAT, > > > > the new v0.17 is ready for testing and fixes 129 issues. I've staged a > > new release 0.17 - thanks for all feedback and contributions! > > > > =Release 0.17 abstract= > > Apart from many dependency updates and multiple bugfixes, this release > > brings a major harmonization among all available UIs (CLI, Apache Ant, > > Apache Maven) concerning parameters and configuration options to run > > RAT. Therefore please consult the available extended and updated > > documentation over at the project's webpage in order to see examples and > > overviews of the new configuration options! > > > > RAT generates a more expressive report now as certain individually > > configurable limits for counters exist. In case you do preprocessing of > > the report, you need to adapt your scripts according to RAT's XSD schema. > > > > Furthermore, the inclusion/exclusion configuration (e.g. .gitignore), > > parsing and processing in RAT was overhauled - see RAT-476 for a known > > issue in that regard. > > > > Many checkstyle, spotbugs and documentation issues were fixed. > > > > Additionally, a new automated test suite was developed in order to ease > > testing of edge cases and example licenses and custom license > definitions. > > > > RAT's homepage contents and its generation method were modernized and a > > lot of new documentation was added to ease configuration of RAT in your > > project. > > > > The next release will remove deprecated options and classes. > > > > Thanks for your patience and all the feedback in the making of this > release! > > #bigKudosToClaude would be a proper release name. > > > > =View on 0.17= > > * https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/RAT/versions/12352253 > > (you need to login) > > > > * > https://github.com/apache/creadur-rat/releases/tag/apache-rat-project-0.17 > > > > =Staging area= > > > > In order to use the staged release add this snippet to your pom: > > <pluginRepositories> > > <pluginRepository> > > <id>staged-releases-rat-017</id> > > <url> > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachecreadur-1012/ > </url> > > <pluginRepository> > > </pluginRepositories> > > or browse > > > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachecreadur-1012/org/apache/rat/ > > directly. > > > > =VOTE is open until 2025-10-16 23:00 UTC= > > Everyone is encouraged to vote, express their opinions and jump in if > > they find anything wrong with the release. Only PMC votes are binding > > on Apache, and for this candidate to become an official Apache > > Software Foundation release 3 +1's are required and more +1's than > > -1's. > > > > This vote is open for at least 72 hours, > > > > [ ] +1 > > [ ] +0 > > [ ] -1 > > > > until 2025-10-16 23:00 UTC. > > > > NOTE > > The downloads page and RAT webpage is not yet changed to reflect changes > > in 0.17 and the dist area does not yet contain the release artifacts. > > > > A preview page (generated before creating the release) is: > > https://creadur.apache.org/rat017/ > > that will be deleted once the release is promoted. > > > > Thanks, > > Phil > > > -- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/claudewarren
