Re: [platform-team-dev] Re: Team API

[Chris Wege <cwege@xxxxxx>]

Michael,

sorry for the late answer.

> > Does that mean that there won't be an API to access the repository log
> > (like cvs log)?
> We do not currently have a plan for this but if you are interested in an 
> API, we are willing to discuss it. What are your requirements for such 
> an API? What type of information are you looking for? How do you 
> envision accessing it (from a clients perspective)?

There is currently a trend to mine information from software 
repositories. See for example the workshop at ICSE
http://msr.uwaterloo.ca/
Also it seems that many of those tools will be integrated with the IDE.

I personally have an interest in analyzing the log information of a CVS 
repository.
What I currently do is:
- Run "cvs log > cvslog" in the project directory. This gives me the 
complete log of all files in the system.
- Use some classes of http://statcvs.sf.net/ to read the log file and 
build the data structures representing individual files and their revisions.

http://javacvs.netbeans.org/ would provide a way to directly access the 
log and work on the repository. I was using this lib in Eclipse for a 
while but I couldn't connect it to the authentication information 
towards the CVS which is stored in Eclipse. Maybe I just didn't try hard 
enough.

My proposal is to either
- provide an API similar to the netbeans solution or
- make the authentication information available. Maybe you can connect 
to the investigated security model 
http://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=37692

I would be happy to show you what I do exactly if you come to the poster 
gallery at EclipseCon looking for "Process assessment with Eclipse
for Test-Driven Development".

Best regards,
Chris Wege

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