On Wed, 6 Mar 2002 23:14:15 -0500 (EST), Sam Tregar wrote:
>On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Matthew O. Persico wrote:
>
>>>This sounds like a really bad idea to me.
>>What is so 'bad'? That is an awfully vague expression.
>
>You're right!  Sorry.  How about "hard" and "fragile"?  What will
>you do
>when a new version of CVS comes out?
>
As long as the interfaces don't change (and hopefully they won't), it
works. If there is new stuff, I don't get it until I update the perl.
No worse than if I needed to do a system() to get the new
funtionality

>>This is also a learning exercise.
>
>*shrug*  Well, ok then.  I hope you learn something good!
>
Already have. Seems the CVS is not libraryable in its curernt state.
>-sam
>
>PS: have you seen mcvs?  It's a system that adds versioning of
>directory
>structures to CVS.  I believe it was done as a wrapper.  See google
>for
>more information.
>

Thanks, I'll check.

--
Matthew O. Persico



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