Re: hello ..

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Oct 31, 2002, Pavel Roskin <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello!
>> just found out about this project while looking for cvschroot ....
>> is this 'active'

> Not really active

[one month elapses]

what do you mean? :-D


Yeah, it hasn't been very active lately.  Hopefully some day I'll
decide it's `good enough' and put a release out.  Meanwhile, well, I
often try to react when I get reports of problems, but there I don't
think I've got any for some time, so...


One of the difficulties of merging the projects is that we've got very
different choices in terms of implementation languages, we have some
overlapping commands (my fault; when I came up with `cvsu', I didn't
know of the other, totally unrelated implementation thereof, so I
should rename it some day), a little bit of overlapping functionality.

IMHO, the hardest problem to solve is that of implementation language.
You'll hardly find me willing to write or maintain stuff in Perl, and
Pavel would probably dislike having to do it all in plain shell script
either.  Perhaps the solution is for both of us to agree to rewrite
everything in Python?  I've been meaning to give myself a reason to
learn Python for real, and I've got François Pinard's implementation
of clcommit in Python as a starting point... :-)

But then, subversion is on the corner, and I'm not convinced rewriting
these CVS-specific scripts is worth the effort.  Perhaps we should
wait for the world to be subverted and then convert whatever is found
to be missing in it to either a set of helper scripts like this, or
fold the features into subversion proper...

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