Version 0 of pure tcl cvs client

Updated 2004-10-15 10:42:18 by CMCc

A client for CVS in pure tcl. - CMcC 20041015

The intention is to embed this in other applications, rather than support it as a stand-alone application. In particular, a cvsvfs will be written to provide a virtual filesystem which keeps itself in sync with a CVS repository.

At the moment, it only supports :pserver: read access, sufficient to checkout a module from a repository, and update it ... so it can be used to keep a directory hierarchy up-to-date with a cvs server.

The snapshot can be downloaded here: http://sharedtech.dyndns.org/~colin/tclcvs.tar.gz

Future Work:

  1. write a tclvfs wrapper for tclcvs
  2. support commit and add
  3. documentation and tests
  4. :ext: server support.

Note: CVS is a horrible, horrible protocol. The justification for implementing it is its omnipresence. It should be possible, with this code, to implement self-updating packages.