Slide with CVS

[Nikunj Mehta <NM...@Fasturn.com>]

I am planning to use Slide in a project, and would appreciate if someone can
address the questions below:

1. Can I use Slide with CVS out of the box?
2. If used with CVS, is the transactional integrity maintained? Meaning, if
something goes wrong and I have to rollback the creation of a new version
for a file, does the file never get created in CVS?
3. How can I use the application security with Slide and CVS? Thus, if the
data is put into CVS through Slide, can it or does it use the same security
context as the application?

Thanks in advance,
Nikunj.

Architect
Fasturn Inc.
Ph: 310 407 6929.
nmehta@fasturn.com

Re: Slide with CVS

[Remy Maucherat <re...@apache.org>]

> I am planning to use Slide in a project, and would appreciate if someone
can
> address the questions below:
>
> 1. Can I use Slide with CVS out of the box?

No. There is no CVS store yet (it's in the TODO list).
I'm interested in having the CVS store (backend), and a CVS frontend if
somebody steps up and wants to try to do it.

> 2. If used with CVS, is the transactional integrity maintained? Meaning,
if
> something goes wrong and I have to rollback the creation of a new version
> for a file, does the file never get created in CVS?

Eventually, Slide relies on the transactional capabilities of the backend.
Of course, stores can implement additional mechanisms which could attempt to
do some error recovery.

> 3. How can I use the application security with Slide and CVS? Thus, if the
> data is put into CVS through Slide, can it or does it use the same
security
> context as the application?

I'll use the example of a database here (since there is a JDBC store
already).

Basically, if you don't configure your database to disallow direct
connections, you can directly connect to the database and change stuff in
there.

Remy