[Cvsnt] Next release features

[Tony Hoyle]

On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 10:13:41 +0000 (UTC), "Matthias Mohr"
<MMohr at SysDesign-EDV.de> wrote:

>  so called "template" repositories, which can be used as base for new repositories
>  and which can be selected when creating a new one (I know this can be done by
>  copying the CVSROOT-directory but this is not "easy enough" :-)

There will be server defaults for things like SystemAuth.  Some things
(like LockDir) can't be replicated, so they'll stay where they are.

>  it would also be nice to have an additional feature of "listing" several repositories from
>  the client side, e.g. by setting the CVSROOT to something which is not a real repository,
>  but a so called "super-repository".

There are security issues with this...  Certainly you shouldn't even
be able to authenticate with the server even anonymously without a
valid CVSROOT.  Listing them could be something that could be added
but it'd have to be disabled by default.

>  It would also be nice to have the control-panel entries for a server installed at remote
>    workstations, so I can add and remove new repositories, start and stop the service, ...
>    from other machines. There must be something in like "connect to server" where I
>    can select different CVSNT-Servers and connect to them and see and change the
>    settings of that server.

I'm not sure why anyone would want to do that (since there's nothing
on the control panel that changes beyond initial configuration) but
it's possible.

>  An API to add some server-side binary diff functionality would also be nice (e.g. for
>  common Windows file-formats like MS-Word and MS-Excel).

That would be very hard to add because of the structure of the CVS
core.  Maybe in the future.

Tony

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