Microsoft's SCC interface

When talking about Subversion with corporate types (yes, it may seem
premature to start doing that, but hey, people are getting excited about
it) the question of integration with Windows development tools comes up.
Sure, there's DAV and all that. But most Windows dev tools (and various
other commercial ones, it appears) support an older API called "SCC" -
here's a link to discussions about the protocol:

http://members.home.net/preston/cvsscc.html

It's not a link to the protocol spec itself, since it's only available via
NDA. The author states,

"The main problem is that the SCC interface was not designed for anything
like CVS. The mapping between CVS semantics and the SCC interface is
awkward at best."

I wonder to what degree Subversion makes for a better map. I'm sure there
are some things which neither CVS nor SVN do for good reasons (exclusive
locks, for example) but I'm curious whether it could be made to work. If
so, we might be able to get fundage to implement it.

Has anyone looked at this before?

        Brian

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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:51 2006