Message: 5
Subject: Re: Providing the functionality of CVS as a library
To: address@hidden (Alex Taler)
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 10:55:11 -0500 (EST)
Cc: address@hidden
From: address@hidden (Larry Jones)
Alex Taler writes:
>
> My incentive for this comes from my experience with writing tools
> that wrap CVS. I found the parsing of the CVS output quite
> cumbersome, and prone to failure when I brought it to a new site.
> I know I'm not the only one who would benefit from such a
> library, so it seemed like a good idea.
That's one of the motivations for the CVS client/server protocol -- the
intent was the people should write new clients rather than trying to
wrap the existing command-line client. Librarifying CVS would likely
require a complete re-write.
-Larry Jones