On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Jonathan Swartz wrote:

> Why would you optimize for installation over development? Seems like
> you do the latter a lot more than the former. :)

My point was that you _should_ have that setup you described for dev (I 
always do), but that installation is orthogonal to this setup.

> Besides which, releasing from a single directory hierarchy is just a
> matter of checking out from version control (if you're willing to have
> svn etc. on your production boxes), or rsyncing from your staging boxes.

Sure, there are definitely advantages.

Of course, often a release involves doing more than copying code around, 
which is another advantage of a package system (pre & post install hooks).


-dave

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