Re: ANN: CVSToys 1.0.0 - commit notification extravaganza

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On , November 10, 2002 at 20:26:13 (-0800), Kevin Turner wrote: ]
> Subject: ANN: CVSToys 1.0.0 - commit notification extravaganza
>
> FreshCVS ("the biggest best and only toy we've got"), working in
> conjunction with CVS's 'loginfo' hook, will perform actions in response
> to a commit.  Unlike 'loginfo' alone, which will only execute the first
> matching command it finds, FreshCVS's flexible configuration allows for
> any number of actions to take place.

That's bogus.  CVS has always had an "ALL" keyword.  RTFM:

           All occurrences of the name `ALL' appearing as a regular expression
        are used in addition to the first matching regular expression or the
        name `DEFAULT'.


> Another key feature of FreshCVS notifications is that you receive
> one per commit, not one for each directory of the commit as
> loginfo-triggered scripts are prone to do.

That's also more or less bogus.  There's been comit_prep and
log_accum in the contrib directory for nearly forever and they do
exactly the same thing.

> FreshCVS is extensible with Python, and you may also publish
> notifications by a Perspective Broker network service, allowing 3rd
> party clients to listen in.

Now that's sort of interesting.  (Scheme would have been better :-)

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