Certainly it is a useful tool, and will become better as time goes on, especially since it's an Apache project. I just don't think it's quite there yet versus the Google license header plugin. It'll get there, and hopefully soon, though I have yet to see any activity on my Jiras from several weeks ago. So it goes..
mike On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Kevan Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jun 14, 2010, at 3:28 PM, Mike Rheinheimer wrote: > >> ... and another thing. Auto-add of licence would not also >> auto-commit. I don't think anyone would want that. So this type of >> feature in the rat-plugin would only be a slight help vs. a simple >> report of a missing header. It saves the tiny bit of time it would >> take to hand-edit the offending file. > > I have no experience with google license header. I can't imagine that > auto-add would be a good feature to have (certainly not one to base a > decision on, one way or another). Fail the build if a header is missing -- > that seems like plenty of incentive... > > I'll run RAT on a release, regardless... > > --kevan
