On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 01:36:36PM -0800, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
> Matthieu Sozeau wrote:
> >On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 07:49:05PM -0800, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
> >
> >>Matthieu Sozeau wrote:
> >>
> >>>Hi!
> >>>
> >>> I've been working on this lately and finally got it reach a
> >>> distributable state and invite (urge!) you to try it. CVSView
> >>> has the same basic functionnalities as the ViewCVS CGI, is generic
> >>> (i.e. it just generates metadata about the repository's contents)
> >>> and even documented! It requires both jakarta-ORO and the JRCS
> >>> package currently in the jakarta commons sandbox.
> >>>
> >>> Tried only with 2.0.2 on GNU/Linux.
> >>>
> >>> Project page at: http://mattam.ath.cx/progs/CVSView.html
> >>
> >>Way cool.
> >>
> >>Some questions:
> >>
> >>1) is there a way to connect to the last release of a file in 'review'
> >>mode like for
> >>
> >>http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/xml-cocoon2/README.txt?rev=HEAD
> >>
> >
> >
> >Not yet, will add that.
>
> Cool.
>
> BTW, did you look into Eclipse CVS libraries? They are very powerful and
> provide a total abstraction of the CVS server (even SSH tunneling)
>
I wanted to make a relatively tiny CVS Generator for server-side repositories.
I wouldn't have time to look at Eclipse libraries and wouldn't want
everyone to install Eclipse because my Generator required it, although
it surely would be more powerful, and could help write a CVS Source.
If someone work on that i'll probably participate though.
> >>2) does it work remotely? I mean, does it work if the CVS is not hosted
> >>on the same machine where Cocoon is running (and no, there is no NFS
> >>between them) [since you are using JRCS I would tend to think no, but
> >>didn't look into the code so I'd rather ask]
> >>
> >>The reason for this is that I would love to be able to have a running
> >>cocoon publish documents *directly* from CVS, that is use CVS as a
> >>versioning content repository, which is the step one toward a poor-man
> >>(but not so poor on functionality!) CMS.
> >>
> >>Will be very interesting for forrest as well.
> >>
> >
> >
> >Unfortunatelly, no, as that would require parsing the CVS output and be
> >quite ineficient. Also, I'm waiting for subversion which has a public C
> >interface.
>
> Why? subversion uses webdav which is basically just another HTTP
> request. No need to connect to APIs of sort rather than normal
> HTTPClient API.
>
> Or I'm missing something?
No, you're right :)
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> Stefano Mazzocchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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