2009/11/14 Hyrum K. Wright <[email protected]>:
> hmmm, it doesn't look like the patch attachment made it through.  What's the 
> suggested way of supplying patches?

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RAT

Ross

>
> -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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