Ravi Kumar wrote: > I have to design a Web-based CVS client. I could not find any module, > cvs-binding in python. > > I have investigated all sort of Web Interface, including Sandweb, and > ViewCVS etc. > But these provide Read-only access and features. I need to provide > almost all sort of basic features a developer frequently need in it. > So please guide me. > I found javacvs project in Netbeans project repository which seems a > nice library, but since I am not a java programmer, this fails to me. > > Other problem is its implementation. Say, there is a repository of some > projects with many modules. Now, when one developer wants to checkout, I > can get the revision Sources to Web-server temporary sandbox, and create > an archive (tar.gz/zip) and put that for downloading by the user. Since > there is many-to-many relation between projects and developers, it will > consume a lot of disk space on Web-server, creating 'n' copies of a > single project for 'n' users, and assume all developers are checking out > all sources. God knows. > So is there any good implementation for such situation. > If I can be honest, the whole scheme sound completely wrong-headed to me. Is somebody paying you to do this?
The whole point of CVS is to allow clients to maintain a local copy of the repository. Hence a naive implementation of a web CVS client will have to do the same thing for each user. It *might* be possible to use a copy-on-write scheme such as Sun's old Translucent File System (sorry, showing my age here), but this will give hard problems when the repository changes shape, for example. Suppose a user has her own CVS client repository on the web, how is she supposed to edit and compile the files? Or is this not a programming application? regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
