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

[Dan Langille]

On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 13:03:52 -0800, Rob Helmer <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 02:42:57PM -0500, Dan Langille wrote:
> > On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 08:45:40 -0800, Rob Helmer <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi Dan,
> > > 
> > > What kind of interface are you looking for?
> > 
> > A programmatic one.  At present, I use cvsweb (e.g.
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/) to extract what is needed via http.
> 
> Hmm, interesting. It doesn't seem that there are very many client 
> implementations for CVS besides the command-line one, which obviously
> doesn't take XML as input or output in XML ( I assume this is what you
> want? ).

Yes, I don't care what the input is, but I'd like XML output.  Command line
or http is fine by me.

> You could write a translator ( e.g., wrapper ) for the CVS binary
> I suppose, also there is jCVS ( http://www.jcvs.org ), they have
> implemented the client protocol in Java ( as a library, I believe ).

I wanted to avoid another project....  *grin*.  I have enough to keep me
out of jail as it is.  That's why I was hoping for an existing solution.