Any further progress on this patch?

-Hyrum

On Nov 23, 2009, at 3:35 PM, Hyrum K. Wright wrote:

> 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
>> 
> 

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