Scmbug

[Dave Swegen]

On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 12:14:26PM -0400, Tom Emerson wrote:
> 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.

Yes! I got away with not being the first one in this discussion to
mention either of those words :) Seriously though, having either of
those would be nice, and is what I was referring to in my reply to
Christian when I said that we can hack things in, but a nice consistent
interface would be better. So yes, I agree.

Cheers
    Dave