In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jeff Rush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>2) How easy is it to install an application written in the language?
> How is the application deployed?
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> I'm having some trouble understanding the difference between
> "deployment" and "installation". I suspect those words may
> have a special meaning to Java developers (who designed the survey)
> or to Big Corporate IT developers. Ideas?
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> I can tell the story of distutils, python eggs and PyPI, and py2exe
> and py2mumble for the Mac -- is there more to the story than that?
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Oh, yes.
As someone who often says "deploy", even in mixed company, and even writes
about it <URL: http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.misc/deployment.html > on
occasion, I feel obliged to respond.
Meanings, in order of "frequency", for a sense of frequency I assert I can
articulate:
A. installation;
B. installation, but we're trying to sound important,
and "deployment" has an enterpris-y ring to it;
C. something seriously different from installation.
What might C. mean? Say I install a program, but I still have to worry
about how I'm going to configure it within the cluster where I intend to
use it, AND I need to co-ordinate its configuration with the central
database on which it depends, AND I have to tie it in to our license-
management system, AND there are issues with users sharing data and also
protecting data from each other, AND ...--well, all those things that
happen after narrow-sense installation are still part of "deployment".
As it happens, I'm scheduled for a meeting Monday whose subject I'm willing
to paraphrase as, "What does 'deployment' mean?". Let me know after reading
what I've suggested above if you have an appetite for more.
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