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Nicholas Chammas commented on RAT-323:
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Big +1 for enabling the CLI to use SCM ignores as excludes.
The Apache Spark project uses RAT via the CLI, and I am currently trying to
clean up the configured excludes there because it's a [total
mess|https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/c0ff0f579daa21dcc6004058537d275a0dd2920f/dev/.rat-excludes].
This is partly because RAT is not using the project's existing .gitignore
files, and partly because people expect .rat-excludes to work the same way as
.gitignore.
> Harmonize UIs
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>
> Key: RAT-323
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RAT-323
> Project: Apache Rat
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: cli
> Affects Versions: 0.16
> Reporter: Claude Warren
> Priority: Major
> Original Estimate: 168h
> Remaining Estimate: 168h
>
> The UIs (CLI, ANT and Maven) were all developed separately and have different
> options.
> There is an overlap in some functionality and the functionality of some UIs
> is not found in others.
> This task is to do two things:
> # collect all the UI options, and ensure that they are all supported in the
> ReportConfiguration class.
> # modify the UIs so that the names of the options are the same (or as
> similar as possible) across the three UIs. Renamed methods are to be
> deprecated in favour of new methods.
>
> Example:
> apache-rat-plugin has 3 options: parseSCMIgnoresAsExcludes,
> useEclipseDefaultExcludes, useIdeaDefaultExcludes that change the file
> filter. These are options that would be useful in all UIs and should be
> moved to the ReportConfiguration so that any UI can set them.
> By harmonization I mean that options like the above are extracted from the
> specific UIs where they are implemented and moved to the ReportConfiguration
> so that the implementations are in one place and can be shared across all UIs.
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