Subj : Re: CVS commit exec/send_
To   : Runemaster
From : Deuce
Date : Thu Jul 07 2005 11:15 am

  Re: Re: CVS commit exec/send_
  By: Runemaster to deuce on Thu Jul 07 2005 06:31:00

 >  > Add a send_pr script which allows problem reporting to the GNATS bug
 >  > database at gnats.bbsdev.net (hopefully)
 > 
 > You like this? (GNATS)  Bleah.  I certainly don't :)

As the guy with the HTML eye in the development group, I can understand
completely why you don't like the layout of GNATSweb... it is rather sparse and
ugly.  Of course, it's fixable.  Some of the big features of GNATS are a bug
reporting/querying daemon with a very simple text protocol, a thing which
allows anyone to create arbitrary programs to diddle the data (For example, a
small script which updates a PR on a CVS commit would be trivial)  Further, it
allows PRs to be submitted via email... not requireing a web browser of any
sort for a bug report.

The web thing is just a very simple front-end to the bit that does the real
work.  Having the thing as a PHP script which uses MySQL and supports ONLY html
submissions seems needlessly restrictive.

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