version control

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Dec 07, 2009, Fairlight wrote:
>Y'all catch dis heeyah?  Walter Vaughan been jivin' 'bout like:
>> Fairlight wrote:
>> 
>> >I thought I remembered someone here asking about version control for
>> >filePro a while back.
>> >
>> >After my recent experiences, I have to say that Subversion should do the
>> >job with ease--even if ABE is not set to ASCII.  SVN handles binary files
>> >quite nicely.  
>> >  
>> >
>> Also, it works with *nix and there is a version for Windows as well.
>
>Actually, Walter...  I was just thinking... :)  If you set up your
>development box with Apache + DAV + SVN, and set up your repositories and
>per-directory access control correctly, you could make updates of client
>sites as painless as grabbing the latest snapshot of a product, and include
>a script in the snapshot to update any tables/indexes/whatever that need
>updating.
>
>IOW, you could use SVN not just for version control, but as a distribution
>channel for customers.

In fact, the python eazy_install/buildout system used for
building many python applications including Plone can do svn
checkouts on the fly while building packages.  I'm not convinced
that this is a Good Idea(tm) as it can lead to unintended
consequences if somebody changes something in a package which
breaks things.

Bill
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