RE: [ham] [Mantisbt-dev] CVS Integration improvement

[Cris D. <cr...@ds...>]

> 
> > I would like to improve the CVS integration into Mantis.
> 
> Why aim so low? I would like to improve the integration of 
> all SCM systems into all bugtrackers.
> 

Not to start a flamewar, but the soapboxing here really isn't appropriate...
I personally use and like scmbug (and helped to get it working in Mantis in
fact). Scmbug requires Perl. Mantis does not. CVS does not. Subversion more
or less does not. All that in mind, I'd prefer Mantis do this directly. It
means a more rich out of the box API and eliminates another tool from the
things I have to manage.

This doesn't mean scmbug is bad, but it does mean that scmbug is not a
panacea and its appropriate to pursue other avenues for integration.
Everybody has special needs... You of all people should know this... You are
writing a product that integrates the multitude of bug tracking systems with
the multitude of source control systems. It just doesn't make any sense that
a single tool (regardless of how good it is) offers the sole solution to
this problem.

Cris