Python library to access CVS?

[Parano]

Is there a Python library to access CVS?
I tried to google search for it, but with "python cvs" you actually find
alot of python projects that have CVS repository...

 

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Is there a Python library to access CVS?
I tried to google search for it, but with "python cvs" you actually find
alot of python projects that have CVS repository...

I don't know if there exists one or not - but its considered hard to write
one in general, as the design of CVS isn't directed to be
machine-interfacable. AFAIK Eric S. Raymond is the author of the emacs cvs
mode, and always had hard times to make the tool output parsing work -
which one can see, as sometimes errors appear out from nowhere.

Said that, you might think of using subversion instead - its especially
designed to overcome some of the plenty shortcomings of cvs, including the
mentioned one. And there is a python binding for it. svn is mature enough,
and a lot of projects I know are currently migrating - also most important
tools (tortoise, cvsView) are available.

 

[Benjamin Niemann]

Is there a Python library to access CVS?
I tried to google search for it, but with "python cvs" you actually find
alot of python projects that have CVS repository...

I'm not sure, but I think viewcvs (a web interface to CVS written in
python) direcly accesses the CVS repository. You might have a look at it
and see, how it does this and if there's code to reuse.

 

[Ludovico Magnocavallo]

Googling a bit I found PyCVS:

http://pycvs.sourceforge.net/

and a pretty old python-list message by F. Lundh which points to

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/python/python/dist/src/Demo/pdist/

the message is at

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/1999-April/000484.html

Ludo