On Wed, 6 Mar 2002 21:41:06 -0500 (EST), Sam Tregar wrote: >On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Matthew O. Persico wrote: > >>I want to recompile cvs as a library and write just enough >>Inline::C >>code to access that library's functions. > >This sounds like a really bad idea to me. What is so 'bad'? That is an awfully vague expression.
>Wouldn't it be easier to just run cvs commands using system()? > Yes. That's what VCS::CVS does. I, however, consider system() to be a kludge when not using perl in Shell/Glue mode. It will also make some operations on remote repositories easier to code. I can also extend CVS functionality w/o having to open up cvs to do it. This is also a learning exercise. -- Matthew O. Persico
