Craig L Russell wrote: > Usually, proposed releases are posted to a url like this one: > > http://people.apache.org/~shanti/olio_0.1/ > > There, the actual artifacts, signatures, and md5 sums are located. > > 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? > > If not, I'd like to take a crack of writing this implementation. In > Java, it should only take a few hundred lines of code. Perhaps 20 lines > in Ruby?
:-) sounds great every time i review a release, i think it's about time i rewrote recursive-rat.py (which checks the sigs etc but doesn't download but don't bother looking at that since i wrote it before i learned python). - robert
