I do not know whether this might attract interest. Main problem should
be the question where to host such a service.
Jochen
2009/4/15 Marija Šljivović <mak...@gmail.com>:
> 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 <bode...@apache.org> wrote:
>
>> On 2009-04-15, Craig L Russell <craig.russ...@sun.com> 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
>>
>
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