createrepo future

Hi folks,
 I've been pretty silent about createrepo for a while now. Mostly been
busy with other things but some items have been going on in the
background. There are a lot of things that need to change to make
createrepo more useful to various programs out there.(buildsystems,
dynamic-web-repos, things like puppet, etc)

 So, with that in mind I've made some changes to where we should go from
here:


1. switch from cvs to git for scm. I'm not 100% excited about git but
it's easy enough to setup for the shared repo storage and I'm getting
more used to it for yum. All the info about accessing the repo via git
is here:
   http://linux.duke.edu/createrepo/

2. I've made a 'maintenance' branch of createrepo in that git
repository. That's where all the work for 0.4.X's will go, so we can
apply patches to the existing code base while working on a new one. (git
checkout -f maintenance)

3. the new code base. Nothing is written up all that well, but we do
have a need for a createrepo that's more usable as a module than as a
executable program. Specifically, we need module code to return the
metadata from any given package so it can then be crammed into a db or
any number of arbitrary formats. It would also be nice to do work on the
other side of the repodata. So we could easily take 2 repositories and
produce differences, unions or intersections of them. There's a lot of
work and not a lot of specification for this but it does need to happen.
I figure the only way it will happen is with an almost ground-up
rewrite, actually. so that is what the 'master' branch on git is for.

So, that's where we are.

Thanks,
-sv