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Re: Client CVS implementations ( was : Re: XML interface to cvs )


From: Oliver Fischer
Subject: Re: Client CVS implementations ( was : Re: XML interface to cvs )
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 20:56:24 +0100

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Oliver Fischer - mailto:address@hidden

> Does anyone know of any implementations of the CVS client part of
> the client/server protocol in Perl, Python, C ( besides the CVS binary :)
> Ruby, etc. ? Java is nice, but since the core application is not
> running in a VM and it's mostly stateless between executions, I
> don't see an advantage to using the Java implementation.

I am writting a moment a perl wrapper too.... yacvswrapper... ;)

> AFAIK, the "official" CVS doesn't have the various functions split
> into a library, it's all implemented in the binary, right? ( I've browsed
> the source, I obviously haven't read it since I'm asking this ).

Unfortunately cvs is a monolithic binary. I thought about a native perl
binding, but I discarded the idee after looking at the sources. To have a
libCVS with a nice and extendsible API would be something great and give CVS
a new boost.

Bye

Oliver





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