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Re: Providing the functionality of CVS as a library
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Larry Jones |
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Re: Providing the functionality of CVS as a library |
Date: |
Fri, 1 Nov 2002 10:55:11 -0500 (EST) |
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
You can never really enjoy Sundays because in the back of your
mind you know you have to go to school the next day. -- Calvin
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