IMHO, librarifying CVS would be great.
Noel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2000.07.21 18:09:37
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Subject: Re: CVS Library?
Does anybody have any comments on this? I was guessing I'd get some
comment, at least.
jon
* Jon Miner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [000719 18:09]:
> (devel-cvs seems to be a bit broken, so I guess it'll just be
> info-cvs..)
>
> I know this has been brought up before, and I didn't really think that
> there was much use for it at that point, but....
>
> I've been working on Apache mod_cvs ( http://www.sub.nu/mod_cvs/ ) and I
> was thinking about trying to make it more efficient, and able to
> communicate with CVS servers across the network..
>
> This, of course, is a complete change to the current functionality of
> mod_cvs (which does work quite well, it seems) and has the posibility of
> slowing down the web access VERY MUCH.. But, I figured I'd try anyway.
>
> Instead of completely reinventing the wheel, I came to the realization
> that what we really need is a CVS library that various programs (the
> "cvs" executable, most notably) can access via a specified API. This
> would allow for many different interfaces to CVS, especially the
> graphical ones, as they could just link to the CVS library rather than
> either shelling out to the executable or reimplementing anything.. It
> could also be used to create a sort of PAM interface, allowing things
> like cvsauth to be done in minimal code, without reimplementing
> anything..
>
> Has anybody looked in to this already? It would certainly be a major
> architectural change, probably necessitating a 2.x.x release..
>
> just some thoughts..
>
> jon
>
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> That means I'll have to use $ans to suppress newlines now.
> Life is ridiculous.
> -- Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
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