I saw this posting on the webdevtools blog and was intrigued by its
promise.
Deploying apps across multiple environments really sucks with IIS, especially
when you have specialized setting for different servers in a web farm, or you
have multiple people that need to be able to crank out different builds on
demand.
Right now, we sync out files to different servers using ViceVersa, but it
doesn't allow to do things like sql updates and it certainly doesn't help us
when we want to rollout separate web.config settings for each different
server.
I'm not a believer yet - just calling something 1-click publish gives me
shivers of nasty behind the scenes messiness - but I truly hope it works as
planned. With all the fast and agile development going on, anything that makes
deployment easiest, more efficient and more reliable is a really good thing.
This could be interesting...
More later - joel