The transfer portion of your question is best handled by version control systems like svn or cvs. This allows you to not only transfer the files, but also gives you the ability to track changes that may have been performed by developers other than your self. It is a good way of identifying if the party receiving the code has performed some modification that might be causing problems you should be aware of.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/11/07, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:developer@blessedherbs.com">developer@blessedherbs.com</a></b> <<a href="mailto:developer@blessedherbs.com">developer@blessedherbs.com
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi,<br><br>I am upgrading a site from custom PERL to Drupal and have a reasonable
<br>newbie understanding of what is involved. I am stuck trying to get<br>the shopping cart, ubercart to work for me however.<br><br>Ideally, I would like to send someone a mysqldump.sql and a<br>drupal.tar, have them replicate my installation. Then make ubercart
<br>function as well as <a href="http://authorize.net">authorize.net</a><br><br>I would like to get the updated tars back and install them on my<br>server like magic.<br><br>Is this a reasonable way of getting this task accomplished? If so,
<br>what would it cost do get this happening?<br><br>Thanks,<br>Steve<br>_______________________________________________<br>consulting mailing list<br><a href="mailto:consulting@drupal.org">consulting@drupal.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.drupal.org/mailman/listinfo/consulting">
http://lists.drupal.org/mailman/listinfo/consulting</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><br>Kevin Bridges<br><a href="http://www.kevinbridges.org/">http://www.kevinbridges.org/</a>