managing releases of web applications: is svn checkout the best way?

[Michele Simionato]

On Oct 7, 9:55 am, Ksenia <ksenia.marasan... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For website development, I am using SVN repository to commit the code
> from my development computer, and on the production server use svn
> checkout to update the code to the latest version.
> Is this the most common approach people using? Or is there maybe a
> better way to manage "live" releases, like creating an egg for each
> release? Assuming the code is closed-source and should be kept secure.
>
> Just wondering how you people deal with that.
> Thanks
> Ksenia

We make a tag for each new release and then a SVN export. This works
for pure Python code.
We also have dependencies for C++ libraries, which change less often.
For them,
we make eggs.