hmmm, it doesn't look like the patch attachment made it through.  What's the 
suggested way of supplying patches?

-Hyrum

On Nov 13, 2009, at 6:21 PM, Hyrum K. Wright wrote:

> In using RAT to check potential Subversion release tarballs, I've bumped into 
> a couple of its, uh, limitations.  To that end, I've hacked up the attached 
> patch which fixes the immediate itch of not wanting to have to unpack the 
> tarball before running the tool.  I'm not sure what the RAT patch submission 
> guidelines are, so I'm just sending it here, with the following caveats.
> 
> Caveats:
> * Reports aren't sorted properly for .tar.gz; standard filesystem targets 
> remain unaffected.
> * Needed to add a new dependency (ant) to pick up TarInputStream and friends.
> * My maven-fu is *very* limited (read: nonexistent) so I kind of guessed at 
> the build system tweakage which needed to happen for the above.  
> Comments/pointers/tweaks appreciated.
> * My Java is a bit rusty, so I may not have done things in the most efficient 
> way.
> * I don't know the standard RAT coding conventions, but attempted to follow 
> existing conventions where possible.
> 
> Future work:
> * Allow running on .zip and .tar.bz2 tarballs.  This should be relatively 
> easy.
> * Properly sort the output of the report generated by running RAT on tarballs.
> 
> Let me know of any feedback you may have, or feel free to just tweak the 
> patch before committing.  I plan on implementing the followup patches after 
> this one gets committed.
> 
> Cheers,
> -Hyrum
> 

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