On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 11:58:56PM +1300, Dan Langille wrote:
> On 9 Mar 2001, at 10:55, Josef Karthauser wrote:
>
> > > > It's my long term goal to produce a proper branch mailing list, but
> > > > this means doing clever stuff with the commits because it's possible
> > > > for a committer to affect more than one branch at a time.
> > >
> > > This is also a goal of FreshPorts2. I guess we're going to have to look
> > > closely at this characteristic of the header. Either that or compile the
> > > XML at the same time as the cvs-all message is created.
> >
> > It makes more sense to generate XML at message generation time IMO. How
> > that intergrates into the current scheme of things however is a different
> > question.
>
> Agreed. Parsing a cvs-all mail message is not the easiest thing to do.
> Having access to the original data at message generation time is the
> ideal situation. I'm sure there's a design pattern which fits this
> application precisely.
The good thing about generating XML is that it can be hardcoded if
necessary, whereas it's probably easier to use a library to decode it.
If we needed to install a library on the machine that's running
CVSROOT/scripts that would make it a real PITA.
Joe
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