Hi to all! Looking at this idea which is interesting funcionality for RAT ( and it is not difficult for implementation) I was thinking about this:
I think that it will be possible to made a version of RAT which will be hosted like web application. The user will upload archive of his source code to this web application and RAT will automatically start checking source code according the options which will be available on front end of this site. The result will,after that, be sent as email to user. This site could be used as a demo for RAT capabilities and can provide useful and interesting way of using RAT. Also, this will provide better performance for "copy&paste detector" RAT's funcionality ( we would have better performance in communication with google code search engine ) It will be useful for this web application to have capability mentioned previously by Craig. As we know, Google App Engine from recently supports one more language-Java. I think that it will not be difficult to made RAT to work on current Google App Engine infrastructure. GWT framework could be used for site. This is just a thinking not only about RAT as a tool, but also about RAT as a service. What do you think about this? Best regards! Marija On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Stefan Bodewig <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2009-04-15, Craig L Russell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Does rat have the ability to list the contents of a url directory, > > download and check the artifacts' signatures and md5 sums, then unzip/ > > untar the artifacts and do its usual license checking on the results? > > No, it doesn't. > > You can skip the unzip/untar step since RAT can work on compressed > archives (see the Ant task for examples) but it will probably run > faster if you unpack the archive first. > > Stefan >
