RE: best production practice?

[Jim.Hyslop]

bobby temper wrote:
> I also agree with Jim, but it might be hard to convince 
> content people that 
> they have to go throught a staging first, for simple stuff.
In my experience, it's usually the simple stuff that causes the most
headaches ;=)

> I'm wondering if 
> it would be better to install a cvs client, and have the code 
> being a "cvs 
> checkout" copy. That way, we could do like you're proposing, 
> with cvs diff. 
> I'm actually just wondering if doing it that way has some 
> drawbacks, vs 
> doing a "cvs export/tar-gzip/scp" procedure.
The drawback would be having to administer another installation of a cvs
client. Not much overhead, I think.

One advantage - you can check in changes directly from any production
hot-fixes.

-- 
Jim Hyslop
Senior Software Designer
Leitch Technology International Inc. ( http://www.leitch.com )
Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal ( http://www.cuj.com/experts )