Re: [platform-vcm-dev] The WVCM API

["Jean-Michel Lemieux" <Jean-Michel_Lemieux@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> 2. At present we need the following operations:
> Tasks that ask for information about a resource:
> a) is a resource under source control?
> b) last modification date of a file in source control (cvs status + some 
> parsing)
> c) diff versus a specific revision or a specific date (cvs diff -D or cvs diff 
> -r) - the output should be one of the classes in org.eclipse.compare
> d)  last author of a file (cvs log + some parsing) (it would be nice to have a 
> method that determines the last author of a specific line of a file, but we 
> haven't yet figured out a way to do this in a reasonably efficient manner)

> However our tool is also intended to run in headless mode (for example as part 
> of a nightly build process) That makes the ability to get information, add 
> and check in files without user intervention essential.
These are the kinds of requirements that we like to see. Thanks. We starting to plan for the next release and will post to this list our ideas. One of the main planning items will be to evaluate API support.

Cheers,
Jean-Michel