Re: [Libcvs-spec-dev] Any working C client interface to CVS availableanywhere?

[Christof Petig]

Alastair Growcott schrieb:
> The C lib part is not dead. It looks dead because the only person
> working on it is me and I am REALLY busy. The mailing lists are in a bit
> of confusion, but if you want to sign up to them the person to ask is
> Alexander Taler (address@hidden) who <mailto:address@hidden)
> who> is overall in charge of libcvs.
>
> The C library is mostly incomplete. Almost non-existant. It is one of
> those things where everybody keeps writing their own version but doesn't
> have the time to contribute to a shared project. The number of people
> who have shown interest and then evaporated when asked to actualyl
> contribute is quite large.

Perhaps the most difficult part of it is to get the API right so that
every user can most easily _and_ efficiently do his task.

I have no clear idea on how the internal OO design will actually end up
in monotone (though the task and the toplevel design is clearly set).

> What has been completed is:
>
> Design for about 70% of repository access stuff is complete.
> I have finished the basic pserver code to access a CVS server.

I have finished "rsh cvs server" access and Gzip-stream (data/command
compression) and head now for "cvs rls -l" parsing, then "cvs log", then
"co"/"update".

> I have yet to:
>
> Finish design.
> Map those horribly basic text CVS commands to the OO style data access
> methods of the library design.
> Code stuff to actually retrieve data from a CVS server.
>
> Working client library in anything other than Perl? I don't think there
> is one or I wouldn't have spent so much time on libcvs. It looks like
> you will be writing the missing 30% unless you feel like contributing to
> libcvs in which case you will be writing a lot more.

I will complete my task and look back whether I can contribute something
to libcvs (do you have a public accessible current version available?)

Thanks for the prompt reply
   Christof

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