Scmbug

[Tom Emerson]

Dave Swegen writes:
> 2) To be honest, I've pretty much gone off the idea of having the scm
> system fiddling directly with the bz DB. The main problem is that as bz
> starts working with more DB backends, and schemas change, the script is
> going to have to keep up. More maintainance overhead, and you also miss
> out on nice things like sanity checking the SQL. FWIW, the next version
> of the cvs->bz integration will probably talk via the bz web ui (which
> is going to need some work).

This is where having an XML-RPC or SOAP interface to Bugzilla
functionality would be a Big Win: external tools could work with
Bugzilla nicely without having to track changes to the schemata.

    -tree

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