[development] Solving the dev->staging->live problem

[Sam Boyer]

On Saturday 09 August 2008 20:09:59 Adrian Rossouw wrote:
> On 10 Aug 2008, at 1:22 AM, Sam Boyer wrote:
> > Given that heyrocker/Greg is now at Palantir, deploy is on our
> > minds...let me
> > try to not steal any of his thunder :)
>
> One of the things I would like to see in deploy , or any system we end
> up using,
> is the ability to generate a module with a .install file for the
> configuration info
> in install and update_x hooks.
>
> This allows developers to version their code and configuration with
> their version tracking
> system, and roll out new releases the same way they would normally.

Sorry, I'm not grokking this idea. What's the use case for generating modules 
and associated update hooks?