Re: [Statcvs-users] any tools to put CVS info in relational database?

[Dave P. <pl...@cs...>]

Hi Jason,

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 06:53:06PM -0400, Jason Kealey wrote:
> Any serious application must be built using a (closed) RDBMS.

Well, "serious" being in the eye of the beholder, I'd be perfectly
happy with something that populates one or more tables in a MySQL or
PostgreSQL database.

In the literature so far, I've found a tool called slurp (C++/python)
that can parse RCS files (which is what CVS uses internally) and pump
all the data into a MySQL table for convenient querying:

   http://msr.uwaterloo.ca/msr2005/papers/27.pdf
   http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~keir/

I guess I'll give that a try.

> Take a look at
> the commercial product FishEye which built the application you have in mind.
> 
> http://www.atlassian.com/software/fisheye/

Thanks, looking for something freely modifiable with source though.
 
> I haven't looked around for open source tools that would achieve the same
> purpose, but I assume there are some. 

Bloof has the option of using either PostgreSQL or McKoi, but
apparently hasn't been maintained since 2003:

   http://bloof.sourceforge.net/
   http://bloof.sourceforge.net/user-guide.html#storage

However, we had some pesky little problems like it's install
instructions directing one to run scripts which don't seem to be
provided in the distribution. :-(

Dave

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