Re: [Lxr-dev] [ lxr-Bugs-453387 ] variable 'v' range

[Malcolm B. <ma...@br...>]

Peder O. Klingenberg wrote:

>Jason Dorje Short <js...@de...> writes:
>
>>Can LXR be set up to use a remote CVS repository as its source tree?  It
>>shouldn't be hard (althoug especially slow).
>>
>
>Not at the moment.  It needs access to the cvs file tree. :(
>
This is something I would very much like to see, since if we are to 
support other SCMs we cannot rely on being able to directly access the 
underlying files.  It seems to me that it would be possible to do this. 
 CVS.pm needs access to the following info for a file:

1) The versions of that file
2) The contents of the file

cvs status -v will give you all the tagged versions, which may be OK, 
and obviously cvs co gives the contents (as is currently done).  As you 
say, this would be pretty slow without some aggressive caching, but it 
should at least work.

>>If so, this would be a good way to set up the default configuration.
>>
>
>I agree.  Automatically indexing its own CVS tree by default, perhaps?
>But unfortunately vaporware at the moment. :(
>
Indeed.  Hmm, now, should I hack on this or on the CSS/HTML re-write :-)

Malcolm