On 16-Nov-09, at 6:25 AM, David T. Lewis wrote:

> I am not a Monticello expert, but I wonder what others think of
> Edgar's extensions for storing non-code things in an MC archive?

I haven't looked at Edgar's work in particular, but I have to say I  
don't like the general trend of using MC as deployment tool rather  
than a development tool. MC was not designed for deployment, but the  
fact that individual versions in an MC repository can be referenced by  
URL make it really tempting to just skip the whole packaging-for- 
deployment step and just deploy straight out of the repository. I  
think this weakens MC as a development tool, while also obscuring the  
weaknesses in our deployment technologies.

Edgar mentioned SAR, which is the best deployment technology we have  
at the moment. What's missing from SAR that requires MC provides? I  
think it would be better to add (deployment) functionality to SAR than  
to MC.

Colin