I completely agree. The best way would be as Torbjorn wrote: "Being able to add a spesific command without expanding the ScmProvider would have been great."
The core of scm-maven should remain compact and easy to maintain, but unfortunately right now, I think the only way is to add the commands I need. Anyway: I think "listFiles" is an important SCM feature, which should be really in the core library. Zsolt >-----Original Message----- >From: Torbjorn Smorgrav [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 11:15 AM >To: scm-users@maven.apache.org >Subject: Re: Proposed extension of ScmProvider > >If our aim is to support a superset of all SCM commands, then this >Task system should definitivly be supported. But we should perhapes >think about distinguis core SCM commands (commands that virtually all >SCM supports) and provider spesific commands. >Being able to add a spesific command without expanding the ScmProvider >would have been great. > >An other thing... should we try to follow subversion naming? If we are >going to add a list/inventory/listFiles command, I think we should use >list (as in subversion list). > >And again, when adding a new concept, it is very, very important to >include good javadoc. >What is a Task? What makes it different from a TODO listing? Whats a >typical return value from these fields. How should it be used? What >providers are likly to support it? > >Cheers >Torbjørn > >On 4/8/06, Trygve Laugstøl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 19:34 +0200, Zsolt Koppany wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > this mailing list doesn't allow attachments, thus I have just pasted >the >> > source code. >> > >> > It doesn't contain any implementation but the methods are really >necessary >> > for me. >> > >> > I extended ScmProvider but actually I think, the new methods should be >added >> > to it. >> > >> > Please make you proposals. >> >> I don't really understand what this code is supposed to do? It seems to >> be something like a parser for TODO stuff which really isn't something >> that belongs in a SCM library. >> >> If what you want to do is to read out all the TODOs etc you can do that >> with a checkout/export and run a Maven report. >> >> -- >> Trygve >> >>
