From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Molenda To: Tom Tromey Cc: Overseers List Subject: Re: FYI: ViewCVS Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 06:08:00 -0000 Message-id: <20000819121953.A22015@shell17.ba.best.com> References: <87bsyp6ps7.fsf@creche.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-shoot-me> X-SW-Source: 2000/msg00971.html On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 12:59:04PM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote: > ViewCVS is a reimplementation of cvsweb in Python: Yah, I'd seen that before - IIRC they were about on par with cvsweb's level of features a while ago. You can always install both of them. BTW I believe there was a bugtraq sort of report about some possible exploits in the older cvsweb version we're running on sourceware. It'd probably be good to grab the latest and install it some time - I'm using it at Yahoo with no problems. (I keep meaning to do it myself but have yet to actually get around to it) > I'm going to ask him about the `NONE' problem -- if ViewCVS > solves that then it might be reason enough to change. I kind of doubt it, unless it's parsing the RCS files on its own. cvsweb uses rdiff to do the diff-without-a-checkout, and rdiff is implemented within cvs and is missing many of the features of the normal diff, making any kind of reasonable workaround for the NONE diffs impossible. (at least that's the conclusion I came to when I looked at fixing this a couple of months ago) Jason From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Molenda To: Tom Tromey Cc: Overseers List Subject: Re: FYI: ViewCVS Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 12:20:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20000819121953.A22015@shell17.ba.best.com> References: <87bsyp6ps7.fsf@creche.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-shoot-me> X-SW-Source: 2000-q3/msg00262.html Message-ID: <20000819122000.Yt3MBej1-mB_ijn97S8cXhYjXv03SHyEGCzLhJquTeU@z> On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 12:59:04PM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote: > ViewCVS is a reimplementation of cvsweb in Python: Yah, I'd seen that before - IIRC they were about on par with cvsweb's level of features a while ago. You can always install both of them. BTW I believe there was a bugtraq sort of report about some possible exploits in the older cvsweb version we're running on sourceware. It'd probably be good to grab the latest and install it some time - I'm using it at Yahoo with no problems. (I keep meaning to do it myself but have yet to actually get around to it) > I'm going to ask him about the `NONE' problem -- if ViewCVS > solves that then it might be reason enough to change. I kind of doubt it, unless it's parsing the RCS files on its own. cvsweb uses rdiff to do the diff-without-a-checkout, and rdiff is implemented within cvs and is missing many of the features of the normal diff, making any kind of reasonable workaround for the NONE diffs impossible. (at least that's the conclusion I came to when I looked at fixing this a couple of months ago) Jason