I participated in one such discussion a while back. If I ever find myself working with CVS more than fleetingly I wouldn't mind putting this together myself, but working on this wouldn't serve my current goals. I think that having pure-Java CVS functionality in Ant is just about a necessity. Ant itself lives in a CVS repository, as do countless other open-source projects. IMHO, if Ant is CVS-aware enough to have CVS directories in "default excludes", it should probably support CVS functionality as easily as with most of the optional tasks (dropping a jar someplace).
-Matt --- "Shatzer, Larry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I noticed in the source code for the CVS task, this > comment: > > // XXX: we should use JCVS > (www.ice.com/JCVS) instead of > // command line execution so that we don't > rely on having > // native CVS stuff around (SM) > > // We can't do it ourselves as jCVS is > GPLed, a third party task > // outside of jakarta repositories would be > possible though (SB). > > Which makes perfect sense. Even LGPL would have > problems being linked too > with java's import statement. > (http://issues.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?Licensing) > > Recently the idea of having a native java interface > to cvs instead of > shelling out to CVS came up on the Maven development > list > (http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > &by=thread&from=518930) > > > The NetBeans project was brought up, and javacvs in > particular. > > http://javacvs.netbeans.org/library/index.html > > Since this is licensed under the Sun Public License > (http://www.netbeans.org/about/legal/license.html) > which someone said is > compatible with the Apache License. > > Now I know we can't just up and replace the current > <cvs> task for backwards > compatibility (since we are never going to fully > implement every possible > command combination). Maybe we can make a new > optional task (<javacvs>), > since we have to link to something under the Sun > Public License, and can't > re-distribute the jar file. > > I don't know enough Java to tackle this myself, but > thought I would start a > discussion and see who else is interested in a > native java cvs task. (I've > seen it come up a few times on here, at least once > that I can remember for > sure). > > -- Larry > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
