I'm jumping into this SCC/deployment discussion pretty late, but wanted to echo the votes for Subversion for source control. On the client side, TortoiseSVN on the Windows client side is excellent and Subclipse is there for Eclipse users.
(I haven't seen any Mac users chime in about how it works for them on Dreamweaver, but my Mac friends tell me Subversion repositories can be mounted pretty easily on OS X since it's all Web_DAV under the hood -- that's probably even easier than dealing with Tortoise for simple tasks) And the latest Subversion (1.2) added reserved checkout functionality, which is the model Visual SourceSafe (among others) uses -- files are locked until the user checks them back in. This is in addition to the base functionality of Subversion, which follows the model used by CVS and other SCC that allows anyone to check out any files and focuses on merging to resolve changes. > Scripting it all > You could setup all of this to run as batch files in windows or linux. The > staging process could be scheduled. You could trigger the running of the > staging deployment by calling a CF page with a CFExecute that runs the batch > file. If you are extra crafty you might use a nifty new CF Gateway to watch > for some file system chage or listen for a ping from somewhere to tell it to > run and get the latest release.... I'm pretty suprised no one's mentioned Ant and the many, many tools around it for the deployment side of things. Regardless of the SCC system, Ant is a nobrainer for automating deployment, especially if you need to do things like reset databases, run test or acceptance suites, or any other of the additional quality control steps as part of an automated deployment process. Plug in CruiseControl and you've got a pretty robust system for deploying for test, stage, and production/delivery. As an aside, I'll be talking about these tools at CF-United in the Open Source Java Tools session and they are certainly topics that can come up at the BOF. -- John Paul Ashenfelter CTO/Transitionpoint (blog) http://www.ashenfelter.com (email) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:209263 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
