C API for Bugzilla

[Ferhat Ayaz]

That right, but we want a library without modifiying 
existing bugzilla installations. 
I don't think that perl is a good idea to implement a
frontend application , for instance using  gtk.
However, perl is a nice tool to administrate
bugzilla:)

--- Colin Bendell <cbendell at point2.com> wrote:
> Is there a reason why this discussion is focusing on
> a C API or curl for
> interfacing to bz instead of a web services
> implementation?  From my
> perspective it would be much easier if I just had to
> make a bunch of
> soap calls to do the work I needed.  This way the
> calling app can be
> platform / language independent.
> 
> /colin
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gervase Markham [mailto:gerv at mozilla.org]
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 4:29 PM
> > To: developers at bugzilla.org
> > Subject: Re: C API for Bugzilla
> > 
> > J. Paul Reed wrote:
> > > Well, I don't see why everyone wants to reinvent
> the wheel, but in
> > > discussions in IRC today about how you'd do
> this, you could write a
> C
> > API
> > > that uses curl to contact Bugzila via our HTTP
> API.
> > >
> > > Justdave suggested that... I didn't know we had
> an HTTP API.
> > 
> > Well, you submit HTTP requests to Bugzilla, and
> get data back. Sounds
> > like an API to me.
> > 
> > Oh, you meant a _stable_ API with easily-parseable
> data? Not sure
> about
> > that. ;-)
> > 
> > Gerv
> > 
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