Re: CVSRoot

Martin Entlicher wrote:

>Ojares Rami EINT wrote:
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>>Should it be so that there are two different classes
>>ServerConnection: opens socket to host and starts cvs server
>>LocalConnection: starts cvs server on local machine.
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>Well, as Milos explained, :local: connection method is not a "connection to"
>something, but rather client+server together. It directly acts on the
>repository without any client-server communication. The JavaCVS does not
>implement the server and thus is not capable of :local: connections. As a
>workaround for that, ServerConnection was used, which connects to the "cvs
>server".
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>But I agree, that ServerConnection should be able to connect to remote servers.
>We can then implement a separate LocalConnection, that would connect to the
>"cvs server" as a workaround for the real :local: mode.
>I've never used/tested ServerConnection. IMHO :server: method is not much used
>anyway and for local connection it does not make much sense to use JavaCVS,
>since you need to use the cvs.exe as a server anyway. In NetBeans we use
>JavaCVS only for :pserver: method, but :server: mode can be handy as well.
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I might be talking gibberish, but how do you connect to a remote cvs 
server  using the :server: method? since it's just 2 processes 
communicating using their input and output streams, it might not be 
possible/reasonable. for remote stuff, one should use :pserver: or :ext:
:server: makes IMHO sense only for local machine and even there it's 
mainly a workaround.
just my 2 cents.


Milos