[PROPOSAL] cvs support in KDE

[George Staikos]

On Friday 17 January 2003 07:15, Christian Loose wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I want to propose a more organized effort to add a system-wide support for
> CVS (and other vcs like Subversion) to KDE. Right now we have a lot of code
> duplication.
>
> - Cervisia with its new CVS DCOP service
> - KDevelop with cvs and svn part
> - KBabel with libcvs
> - Quanta uses Cervisia (AFAIK)
> - and in the future maybe more (Kate, KFileDialog?)
>
> The two parts that might be interesting for code reuse (IMO) are a layer
> which provides easy access to the functionality of the command line client
> and a GUI layer with the dialogs to display the data (like the Browse Log
> dialog of Cervisia).

  I thought about this too.  I think the killer implementation would be one in 
kfiledialog.  If kfd had cvs integrated....  it would basically make all apps 
cvs capable, and it would make cvs truly transparent I think.


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George Staikos