John Plocher wrote:

>> What exactly is going to be in the repository?  
> 
> The source code to the web app

Which web app, the ogb/arc one?

>> How is that going to work if the code in question needs compiling?
> 
> I (again) assume that hg has hooks that trigger on pushes
> that can be used to do work on the server:
>    clone a build space,
>    compile it,
>    kick the web server to tell it it has a new war file to load
>    done
> (or somesuch)

The repository and app server will most likely be on different machines, 
and as well as that, there are all sorts of security issues to address.

>> And normally ...
> 
> All reasonable concerns that may or may not be an issue.
> If 50% or 80% of the pushes don't need that type of handholding,
> then this might be a good thing to do.  Certainly, after an
> initial "invention" spurt, most of the changes won't be doing
> a lot of schema changes...

This whole scheme is way to dangerous as far as I'm concerned. I 
personally wouldn't dream of implementing, but good luck to you if you 
wish to try, I'll be interested to see how you get on.

-- 
Alan Burlison
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