Another gentle reminder that this patch is outstanding and hasn't received any comments/concerns/vetoes. I'd like to see this included in RAT as soon as is reasonable.
Thanks, -Hyrum On Nov 19, 2009, at 2:32 PM, Hyrum K. Wright wrote: > Ping. It's been a couple of days since the most recent version of this > patch. Any comments? > > -Hyrum > > On Nov 17, 2009, at 10:44 AM, Hyrum K. Wright wrote: > >> >> On Nov 16, 2009, at 11:12 PM, Stefan Bodewig wrote: >> >>> On 2009-11-14, Hyrum K. Wright <[email protected]> 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. >>> >>> The RAT Antlib already supports working on arbitrary resource >>> collections, which means you wouldn't even have to download the tarball >>> yourself if you wanted to. >>> >>> <rat:report ...> >>> <tarfileset ...> >>> <url .../> >>> </tarfileset> >>> </rat:report> >> >> I hadn't even thought about that, but it's a nifty side effect. :) >> >>>> * Needed to add a new dependency (ant) to pick up TarInputStream and >>>> friends. >>> >>> For RAT's core commons-compress may be a better option, it is more or >>> less the same code base (for tar, zip and bzip2) and has a lighter >>> footprint. Basically you'd have to change a few imports and class names >>> (TarArchiveInputStream instead of TarInputStream). >>> >>> http://commons.apache.org/compress/ >> >> Thanks for the suggestion. I switched to commons-compress and uploaded a >> new version of the patch: >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12425235/rat-tar-gz-v2.patch >> >> Using commons-compress will actually make handling bz2 and zip files much >> easier, but I'm going to wait on those until this patch is committed. >> >> Cheers, >> -Hyrum >
