2017-08-31 12:00 AEST by Arthur Barrett - Apparently there is a new trend called a 'headless CMS'.

It's what CVS has always been.

It's a content management system that focuses on managing the content - not displaying it in apps or web 
pages.

The apps and web pages then 'get' the content by calling a REST API, as explained here:
https://hackernoon.com/how-i-built-a-cms-and-why-you-shouldnt-daff6042413a

Headless Wordpress, with JSON API plugin. It's possible to install the JSON API or JSON REST API plugins on 
top of WordPress, and use it exclusively as a headless CMS. 

Headless Drupal: RESTful module or Drupal 7 with RESTful Web Services module; Drupal 8 actually includes a 
RESTful Web Services module in its core. 

What is REST?

Web Services make it possible for other applications to read and update information on your site via the Web. 
REST is one of a number of different ways of making Web Services available on your site. In contrast to other 
techniques such as SOAP or XML-RPC, REST encourages developers to rely on HTTP methods (such as GET 
and POST) to operate on resources (data managed by CVS Suite).


See also:
Bug 5933 enh: move the cvslock code into cvsmanager, add options to run different options.
Bug 6139 move the dbms code into cvsmanager
Bug 7192 backport EVS web server into cvsmanager (http/https)