Good Perl module for CVS

[Andrew DeFaria]

Hi. I'm a Clearcase admin who is in a new job that uses CVS exclusively. 
I want to do some reports and otherwise interrogate the CVS repositories 
and I was thinking of doing that with Perl. What's a good Perl module 
for CVS?

I've search CPAN and http://search.cpan.org/~rsoliv/Cvs-0.07/lib/Cvs.pm 
seems like the one to use, however certain links on that page seem dead 
(like the Cvs::Result::Log link which was the one I was particularly 
interested in). This leads me to fear that perhaps this module is not 
the best one to use and/or maybe this module is not being kept up to date.

My immediate task is to compare files that have different revisions/tags 
and report what the differences are in terms of "ECR"'s (sorta like bug 
numbers). This is not a simple cvs diff kinda thing. I believe that ECR 
numbers are kept in the check in comments and I need to traverse the 
version tree and pick them up. Again, I'm new to CVS so perhaps I'm not 
using the right terminology. Please forgive me.

So, for example, assume that foo.c has the following version tree:

           foo.c
             |
            1.1 (ECR #1001)
             |
            1.2 (ECR #1341)
             |
             |                 1.2.1.1
             +--------------------+
             |                    |
            1.3 (ECR #1501)    1.2.1.2 (ECR #1623)
             |                    |
            1.4 (ECR #1672)    1.2.1.3 (ECR #1834)

My report comparing 1.4 and 1.2.1.3 should yield ECR #'s 1834, 1623, 
1501, 1672. From what I understand so far WRT CVS I need to parse the 
output of cvs log and build a tree annotated with ECR #'s, then traverse 
the path and pick off the ECR #'s. I planned on doing that in Perl and 
if there's a good module to assist me I'd like to start with that.

Thanks in advance.
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