Thanks everybody, You gave me plenty of information to go on and look for something that might give me a sound and solid solution to my problem! I will look into bzr I've heard good things about it, and maybe I can use it in my app!
Regards, - Jorgen On Nov 21, 2007 9:05 AM, A.T.Hofkamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-11-20, Diez B. Roggisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jorgen Bodde wrote: > > > >> Hi, A.T.Hofkamp (sorry for not knowing your first name ;-), > > Well Jorgen, it is at the bottom of each post (usually)... ;-) > > >> SCM sounds like a term I can google for, if the tool needed is very > >> easy to install, maybe even accompany with my application to run as a > >> service for the updating, it is worth a try to find something that can > >> handle the synchronizing of distributed repositories. > >> > >> Talking a bit more about it and hearing various solutions gave me more > >> insight in how it might be solved. Thanks everybody for your input! > > > > SCM mean source code management - like SVN or CVS. > > > > Diez > > Diez is right, except my choice of the phrase 'SCM' was not exactly right. SCM > is a general term for two kinds of activities, namely version control (VC) and > configuration control. > VC is what everybody does with SVN, CVS, darcs, bzr, git, mercurial, etc in > the > context of software development (hence these tools are known as version > control > systems (VCS)). > > You may want to add 'distributed' to your search term. > > > Configuration management is much less often done. It is about controlling > deployment of some system or software. Imagine you are managing a few > (hundreds) of web sites. They all use LAMP, but exactly what Apache, Py-Mod, > Linux, hardware, is different each time. This of course also holds for the > various initialization and configuration files. > Keeping track of this data over time is called configuration management. > (and if you think this is complicated, consider what Boeing is doing for all > its air-planes... :) ). > > > > SVN isn't distributed, but AFAIK darcs is. > > > > As Diez already guessed, SVN and CVS are organized around a central > repository, > darcs, bzr, git, and mercurial do not need a central repository (although they > often can handle one if the project wants it). > > The nice thing is that at least bzr and mercurial are written in Python!! > > > What I found very enlightening was to find the web-site of these tools, and > then read the docs about their strong and weak points w.r.t. their > competitors. > Of course each of these is biased, but if you read them all, it kind of > balances out.... :) > Also, they all explain what their world model is, you should check whether > that > matches with your problem. > > Good luck with your search, > Albert > > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
