CVS access with Python

[Steve Holden]

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
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