Sorry, couldn’t think of an interesting title.

Also (tells you how much I look at single articles on my own blog), just discovered a bunch of trackback spam, which I’ve now deleted, and hopefully will figure out a good way to henceforward avoid.

Also, just realized there’s a setting in typo for default text filter. Which is good. Considering it takes three or four seconds to set the filter to Markdown (which, btw, I almost always use these days).

So, to the point. As twice previously discussed (aqui y aqui), I’ve been working on (as an on-the-side for-fun project) a repository browser, with the goal of seeing how many types of repositories I can support. With Subversion now working either using WebDAV or the SVN protocol (with some limitations), I threw it up as a publically accessible website a few weeks ago, at canofcode.com. So, check it out if your interested.

I’m now working on CVS. Figuring out how to browse a remote CVS repository has been a pain. I’ve figured out one way (check out the entire tree), but that (as you might imagine) is slow. Hence, I’m considering caching the directory tree in the database. Not sure how I feel about that, but I think it might ultimately be neccessary to support more than a handful of SCM packages at any decent speed. Fragment caching is also an option which I have started implementing. At any rate, it seems silly to replicate a repository (which is for my intents and purposes, a database) into a database.

Okay, a couple of CVS resources:

• An on-line CVS book - which I have not read.
• CVS Network Protocol
• Resources for developing CVS related software

So, check out canofcode.com and comment here. Eventually, I’ll have a ticket site for it, probably either using Collaboa or I may write something of my own.