Re: file: Access vs. Database stability

> On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 06:55:51PM +0200, Jens-Uwe Mager wrote:
> > Well, tools like viewcvs do not use this level of the abstraction, they
> > use the direct level which just uses the OS path name to a Berkeley DB
> > directory structure. Same with the mailer.py or any other useful tools,
> > there appear to be no examples for the level of abstraction you refer
> > to.
>
> Both viewcvs and mailer.py use the python bindings. I can't say I've
> ever tried it but viewcvs and mailer.py should be able to operate on a
> URL just as much as they can a file URL. If they're taking and
> generating a file URL from the configuration and don't let you pass in a
> URL in directly then they need to be fixed...

At least ViewCVS can do this already. It has the 'svn' module for file
access and the 'svn_ra' one for access through a server.

bye,

Erik.

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