Re: python cvs interface?
From what it sounds like in your program, you're making an os.system() function call and waiting for the results, correct? Have you tried using the plethora of parallel system tools so that you don't have to wait for a command to finish? Using a function that will launch your command in a new thread/process may speed up your program considerably. Simply launch a task, return control to the user, and refresh after it returns successfully. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: python cvs interface?
Unless your CVS repository is local, the overhead associated with calling CVS through system calls isn't going to be a bottleneck, and even then it shouldn't be too bad. Using one of the varieties of os.popen instead of os.system will make it easier to avoid disk I/O when communicating with the cvs process. It will be a hassle to parse CVS' copious output, though. I've wished for a Python CVS module before, too. Good luck =) IMHO, the best way to write a Python CVS module would actually be to call it from the command line; writing a Python C Extension for this purpose would introduce a negligible performance increase at the cost of all sorts of other hassles, like expecting users to have the CVS headers/libraries and a C compiler and possibly something like SWIG or Boost Python as well. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: python cvs interface?
Well, the problem is that there are a lot of files to deal with, and I'm already running in parallel, but it still takes a while. Also, cvs uses some sort of locking scheme to stop parallel updates, so it's hard to parallelize effectively. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
python cvs interface?
Hi everyone, this should be a quick question. I'm writing some scripts to take some file and move them into a CVS repository, but it's pretty slow, because it uses system calls to execute the CVS commands. Has anyone ever made a python to CVS interface library that I could use? I've been trying to google around for something, but predictably I get a zillion sourceforge repository hits, and it isn't really helping. So anyway, if anyone knows of a useful module, I'd love to hear about it. Thanks! - Corey -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: python cvs interface?
Corey, WinCvs can use python for macros, you might want to look at their code: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/cvsgui/cvsgui/PythonLib/cvsgui/ You may also want to look at viewcvs, which is written in Python. -jjr -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: python cvs interface?
Thanks, that looks promising, I'll take a look! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: python cvs interface?
Ah, unfortunately it looks like this program uses something called gcvs, a gtk cvs interface written in C++, for interfacing to low level cvs routines. So it probably won't work for me. Oh well. Anyone else have any suggestions? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
