On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 08:00:16AM -0800, Colin Putney wrote:
> 
> 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.

That makes good sense to me.

Dave