Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 11:01:03 +0000 From: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk> To: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs mailing list for RELENG_4 only? Message-ID: <20010309110103.E40040@tao.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <200103091058.f29Awuw87228@ns1.unixathome.org>; from dan@langille.org on Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 11:58:56PM %2B1300 References: <200103091053.f29ArAw87186@ns1.unixathome.org>; <20010309105531.D40040@tao.org.uk> <200103091058.f29Awuw87228@ns1.unixathome.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 11:58:56PM +1300, Dan Langille wrote: > On 9 Mar 2001, at 10:55, Josef Karthauser wrote: > > > > > It's my long term goal to produce a proper branch mailing list, but > > > > this means doing clever stuff with the commits because it's possible > > > > for a committer to affect more than one branch at a time. > > > > > > This is also a goal of FreshPorts2. I guess we're going to have to look > > > closely at this characteristic of the header. Either that or compile the > > > XML at the same time as the cvs-all message is created. > > > > It makes more sense to generate XML at message generation time IMO. How > > that intergrates into the current scheme of things however is a different > > question. > > Agreed. Parsing a cvs-all mail message is not the easiest thing to do. > Having access to the original data at message generation time is the > ideal situation. I'm sure there's a design pattern which fits this > application precisely. The good thing about generating XML is that it can be hardcoded if necessary, whereas it's probably easier to use a library to decode it. If we needed to install a library on the machine that's running CVSROOT/scripts that would make it a real PITA. Joe [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjqot+8ACgkQXVIcjOaxUBYwGwCfTdArc/Sms6k9eK/wk8HeLqZ2 t2kAoMswo0tQE9e2GIfXbdMqdIL2B+ko =OrNC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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