Re: [nant-dev] Nant cvs task using sharpcvslib

[Ian MacLean]

of course but we're not talking every system out there. We are talking 
about cvs - the number 1 scm used by open source projects. I would argue 
that the cvs tasks should ship with the core nant distribution simply 
because a large number of nant users will find it useful. I do *not* 
think that we  should ship clearcase tasks however because they target a 
much smaller set of users.
and I'm sure Ant still ships cvs tasks as part of the core of tasks.

Ian

this is exactly what the Ant team is trying to accomplish ... and its
actually working right now... major vendors (like Bea) now ship supporting
Ant tasks with their products ... and I really think it makes sense ...
although I think this is only possible when the NAnt API has stabilized, but
it should be possible in the end ...
what if there are 20 different popular scm systems, do you think it would be
more managable to have nant support these 20 vendors or would it be easier
to have each vendor support its own system ?
what if version X of cvslib offers more functionality than version Y ?  To
support this in NAnt we "should" actually have 2 tasks (emphasis on should)
like we have with NUNit right now, but if you move the tasks from NAnt to
the vendor library itself, you'll never have problems like these ... If you
use cvslib version X, you automatically also get the NAnt task corresponding
with that version ...
sorry but this isn't true either. if the cvslib api remains stable then 
its just a matter of dropping in the new version.
nunit2 completely reworked the api but Nunit1 still had a large user 
base - hence the 2 tasks.

I think its impossible to have nant support each and every system out there
of course it is.

Gert




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