Re: Providing the functionality of CVS as a library

[Martin Fuzzey]

For Java the jcvs project provides both a CVS client (with UI) and a 
package implementing the CVS client/server protocol that you can use to 
build your own CVS aware applications.
http://www.jcvs.org/

I don't know if anyone has done this in other languages

Martin Fuzzey


> Message: 5
> Subject: Re: Providing the functionality of CVS as a library
> To: address@hidden (Alex Taler)
> Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 10:55:11 -0500 (EST)
> Cc: address@hidden
> From: address@hidden (Larry Jones)
>
> 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