Re: RCS Programming Interface

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

() "Tobias M." <address@hidden>
() Fri, 28 Jun 2013 22:53:23 +0200

   I want to use rcs from within another program (i.e. programatically,
   not interactively).  So I'm wondering if it is possible to use rcs as
   a C library or even if there are any bindings for other languages.

No, not at this time.  Could you please describe in more detail the
algorithms you would like to use, given such a library?

   If this is not possible so far: would you (someone who is familiar
   with the source code) say, with reasonable effort one could create
   such an interface?  Or is rcs' architecture just not suitable for
   this?

If the internals are not suitable for wrapping presently, someone can
(with reasonable effort) reshape them accordingly.  In fact, that is an
ongoing process, the result depending largely on the kind of interaction
client code desires.  That's why the first question above is important.

   All I found so far are programs and wrappers that internally use the
   rcs command line interface in a separate process and parse it's
   output.

Until now, the focus has been to keep those scripts happy in the face of
massive internal changes introduced in 5.8.  I suppose one way to answer
the (important!) question above is to survey those scripts to infer and
categorize idioms.  So that's the second question: Have you done that?

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