[cvsnt] Re: New CVS Notification Program

[Terris Linenbach]

Right, cvsmailer sends email whereas CVSNotify also supports news (nntp) and
IRC.

CVSMailer is easier to use and the HTML is prettier.

CVSNotify has more levers and knobs which, if you don't need them, are
confusing.  CVSNotify will retry when SMTP, etc. servers are down.

Not sure if cvsmailer handles taginfo as most people aren't interested in
logging tag operations.  I had a really hard time making taginfo
notification fast.  After I cracked that nut, I was able to add IRC without
causing CVS operations to crawl.

I would have cleaned up the the "software" and ProgrammersCanvasToolkit wiki
pages but they are immutable to me.   DevGuy CVSNotify is for all intents
and purposes a new thing.  The code has been rewritten and repackaged as a
stand-alone product separate from the rest of the toolkit.  All for the low
low cost of nothing.

-t

"Glen Starrett" <grstarrett at cox.net> wrote in message
news:c4a64k$rnj$1 at paris.nodomain.org...
> Terris Linenbach wrote:
> > It's been a few years since I last updated the CVS notification programs
> > significantly.  I created a separate installer, replaced the various
scripts
> > with one program, fixed the taginfo performance problem, added IRC
support,
> > and finally added the feature to combine multiple operations (commit,
etc.)
> > by the same user into a single message.  More to come.
> >
> > http://devguy.com/cvsnotify
>
> How does this compare to the CVSMailer that Bo has packaged up?  I'm
> about to implement email notification on my server, just email is all
> I'm looking at (no NNTP or IRC).
>
> http://www.cvsnt.org/wiki/CvsMailer
>
> BTW:  I updated the Programmer's Toolkit page in the wiki.  I think it's
> a bit of a mis-named page though since the toolkit contains more than
> just the notification scripts.  You're welcome to correct it :)
>
> http://www.cvsnt.org/wiki/ProgrammersCanvasToolkit
>
> Regards,
>
> -- 
> Glen Starrett