SVN-Deploy version 0.1

SVN::Deploy implements an interface to handle release data held within a separate SVN repository. You can define categorized products where each product consists of multiple sources (SVN repositories and directories or files from a filesystem) and multiple destinations (filesystem directories).

It was designed for situations where the build and deploy steps should not be performed by the developers of a product but by operators with only read access to the developers repository, while the developers have no access to the deploy repository.

The overall outline looks like this:

(dev:developers, op:operating, usr:users/testers):

(dev) define a product
(location of sources from the devel repo and/or files, providing build procedures, etc)
(op) define the product in the deploy repository
(dev) order a new release (give source revision numbers to op)
(op) build the release
(resulting in a new revision in the deploy repo)
(op) deploy the new release to QA environment giving
release revision info to testers
(usr) approve/reject the release
(op) on approval deploy the new release to
production environment

All information and the build/deploy history is held in the deploy repository and can be easily exported for auditing purposes.

The deploy repository will look like this:

repo_root

      \-- Category1
      \-- Category2
        \-- Product1
          \-- 0
            \-- subdir1
              \-- file1
              \-- file2
            \--file1
        \-- Product2
          \-- 0
          \-- 1
          \-- 2
      ...

For further information please use the module's documentation.

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires these other modules and libraries:

SVN::Client
File::Copy::Recursive

SVN::Ra (only for running the tests)

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

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This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.