On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 15:50, Jason van Zel wrote:
>On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 13:37, Eric Pugh wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Something that I find quite annoying is that every box that I want to
>> generate the various CVS related reports, I need to have the cvs
commandline
>> tool installed.  Since I am an Eclipse user, I don't typically have the
>> command line client available.  Anyone done any work on supplying a java
cvs
>> library to
>> be used instead?
>> 
>> I looked at http://javacvs.netbeans.org/ however it seems like pretty
old,
>> and another one at http://www.jcvs.org/.  I would like to at least take a
>> look at what is required.  I was hoping the SCM plugin would have what I
>> needed, but it as well uses cvs executable.
>
>I once tried to take a look at Java solutions and finally gave up and
>decided I could live with the CLI tool being required. I've only looked
>at jcvs and honestly the code is really hard to follow and you pretty
>much need to look at the GUI client to figure out how it works.
>
>What about the Eclipse CVS code? Does it do everything from Java?

Is this a possible direction for maven?
Not using system tools to build?
Everything needed to build either comes with maven, or thru a plugin?

I think this is what ant strives for.  a 100% java solution with no external
system tool requirements (they wanted to get away from the mess that is
make).

http://ant.apache.org/manual/intro.html

Can we also research a ssh / scp replacement?

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