Re: normalizing files and old revisions

[Andreas Klauer]

On Wednesday 03 September 2003 17:39, Paul Sander wrote:
> The rinfo program will parse the RCS files and provide info about each
> revision.  If you need something it doesn't give then it's easy enough to
> add it.

Well, my problem with rinfo is: I'm no C programmer. I'd have to learn C 
first before being able to add things properly. Although I'd really love to 
learn C, I don't have the time for that right now.

I already wrote a RCS file parser in Perl (which is badly coded because I'm 
no Perl programmer, too, but at least I know how it works and how I can 
modify it). There already was such a thing for perl, but for some reason I 
felt not comfortable with it. 

All my parser does so far, is, well, parse the file and throw an error if 
there's a syntax error in it. I don't even have an internal represation of 
the file's data right now. I kind of paused development because Mike Castle 
told me twice not to modify old revisions and I wonder if I should proceed in 
this direction, or do the new branch solution or just leave everything as is.

So, comments on the branch idea described in my prior mail is welcome!

Regards,
Andreas Klauer