Re: cvsdiff

[Pavel Roskin]

Hi, Tom!

On 1 Jul 2001, Tom Tromey wrote:

> Today I finally updated and really installed both Pavel's cvsutils and
> Alexandre's cvs-utils (no offence, I hope, if these belong to multiple
> people).

Congratulations!

> I think we're long past the time when the two packages should be
> merged.  Unfortunately I don't really have the time to do it :-(. Is
> there any barrier blocking the work except time?

I think we're long past the time when a decent replacement for CVS should
be written. That is the real problem, and the reason for cvs[-]utils to
exist.

In other words, it's rather my unwillingness to spend time on something
that should be replaced.

In fact, I wrote a set of other scripts in shell that don't rely on CVS
administrative files, so I actually don't use cvsutils very much. I don't
want to improve software that nobody uses.

Another reason why the projects haven't been merged is a different
implementation. Cvsutils uses Perl. Actually, Perl is probably not the
best choice, but rewriting it would take time. and rewriting it in shell
will almost unevitably mean decrease in speed and dropping some features.

> For one thing they both have a `cvsdiff' script -- so I can't install
> them with the same prefix, or use them both at once.
>
> Pavel, could we rename your `cvsdiff' to `cvsdo diff'?  To me that
> seems more natural.

I've just committed that change, along with some other minor changes.

> PS just about the only messages in the cvs-utils archive are spam.
> This makes it a bit annoying to try to find the real messages.

I wasn't aware about this list.

I just checked the archives and found that you posted a patch for cvsutils
to the list for cvs-utils. Too bad I noticed it after I implemented it
myself :-(

I'm subscribing to address@hidden right now.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin