Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 13:14:11 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz> To: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XML interface to CVS Message-ID: <20020327121411.GW389@roman.mobil.cz> In-Reply-To: <20020326185409.12B953F28@bast.unixathome.org> References: <20020326181435.D3BA23F28@bast.unixathome.org> <20020326185409.12B953F28@bast.unixathome.org>
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> From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org>
> To: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz>
> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 13:54:08 -0500
> Subject: Re: XML interface to CVS
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>
> On 26 Mar 2002 at 19:52, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> > > > Example:
> > > > OpenBSD ports collection FP-site is started. Does it make
> > > > any sense to load the complete history of the tree when FP
> > > > is a "remind me" service?
> > > > Looks to me like it's not that useful...
> > > > I mean, it's quite nice to keep older revisions for some
> > > > time, but I don't really grok the need to load the complete
> > > > history of a CVS tree upon its registration.
> > > >
> > > > Explanation?
> > >
> > > The FP2 database is initially populated from HEAD (there is only
> > > one ports tree, HEAD).
> >
> > That isn't what I asked about. FreshPorts' purpose is to send out
> > mails to registered users when ports they 'watch' change. Plus,
> > one can browse a listing of recent changes on a web. Loading the
> > whole history of the tree looks like feeding old news into a
> > newsticker service. What good is it?
>
> Ahh, I see. No, not for feeding in older commits. But for feeding in
> the latest commits to HEAD. That will server as the start point.
> Without that, you don't have any ports in FP, users can't browse, they
> can't add things to their watch list, etc.
This raises a few more questions that could've been answered if I
could see the source. Is FP/FS open source? If so, where can I get
it?
> > > > > [4] - http://www.FreshSource.org/
> > > >
> > > > What's the $CVSROOT? :)
> > >
> > > I fear my brain is fried from a 5am start today...
> >
> > I'd like to look at the source. Is there a cvs repository with
> > anon access?
>
> No. :)
see above.
> > > > XML is indeed useful in this situation, because it allows
> > > > for for quite a variety of revision-control systems: one
> > > > could write an app to get the info out of a Perforce repo,
> > > > or a SVN one...
> > >
> > > I hadn't thought of that. I was just looking for an easy way for
> > > CVS.
> > >
> > > BTW: I've been directed to this perl interface to CVS, which does
> > > provide a working base for an API:
> > >
> > > http://people.freebsd.org/~eivind/CVSFile-0.2.tar.gz
> >
> > Unfortunately I don't speak perl.
>
> FP/FS uses PHP for any web based content and perl for everything else
> (basically, this "anything else" is for getting data into the database,
> sending out notifications, etc).
If you use XML there's no need for a homogenous environment. Various
parts of the app can be written in various languages, passing XML
chunks in interprocess communication.
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