Web update library in python?

[Jorgen Bodde]

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 <hat at se-162.se.wtb.tue.nl> wrote:
> On 2007-11-20, Diez B. Roggisch <deets at nospam.web.de> 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
>
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