[VELOCITY-864] Download and install Apache Rat task in preparation target for "ant rat"

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.x
• Component/s: Build
• Flags: Patch
• Assignee: Mike Kienenberger
• Reporter: Mike Kienenberger
• Created: 30/May/15 04:22
• Updated: 03/Jun/15 03:20
• Resolved: 03/Jun/15 03:20

Description

Download and install the Apache Rat task in preparation target for "ant rat" instead of making the end-user do so.

I'm not entirely certain if this works in other versions of ant, but it does work in ant 1.9.4 and is described in the rat documentation as "the traditional way"