On 8/17/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">J-P Stacey</b> <<a href="mailto:jp.stacey@torchbox.com">jp.stacey@torchbox.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi Earnie,<br><br>> I hope and have assumed you're aware of the multi-sites features for<br>> version 5?<br><br>Yes, but it doesn't really solve the problem if we have several copies of a<br>client's site on the same server with each developer working on a copy:
<br><br> sites/jp.client.example.com<br> sites/fred.client.example.com<br><br>Because both are subversion'ed, both settings.php will be the same; both<br>will therefore access the same database without some sort of hack, and Fred
<br>might find his development stymied by my db changes.</blockquote><div><br>just svn:ignore settings.php<br><br>But the insurmountable problem is the impossibility of merging configuration changes.<br>Also, even content import/export is hardly straightforward (complex relationships with taxonomy)...
<br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">If Fred changes his settings.php to point to the database<br>db_drupal_client_fred, then he's in danger of checking that in and (a) me
<br>getting the same change when I grab any updates from the repository or (b)<br>worse, that change hitting the live site, which immediately keels over.<br><br>Everything ought to go through a test site, of course, but this becomes a
<br>potential point of failure if urgent work is needed and the test site is<br>underused</blockquote><div><br>The only solution is that someone (usually me where I am) has to serve as "head cook and bottlewasher" integrator in the test site.
<br><br>The plot also thickens when customer needs to get content up in parrallel with old version...<br><br>Victor Kane<br><a href="http://awebfactory.com.ar">http://awebfactory.com.ar</a><br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
.<br><br>Cheers,<br>J-P<br>--<br>J-P Stacey<br>+44 (0)1608 811870<br><a href="http://torchbox.com">http://torchbox.com</a><br></blockquote></div><br>