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Don't re-invent the wheel. Package management systems blur the boundaries between operating system and software. Use them, please. http://en.wikipedia.org/wik

• lobster_johnson 15y ago
  This has nothing to do with package management. It's about deploying web applications.
  • pyman 15y ago
    A web application is a software. How do you think we've been deploying software for the last 20 years, using FedEx?
    • lobster_johnson 15y ago
      A web application is not systems software. Back when web sites were pure HTML pages, were you deploying them as packages? How about PHP sites, do you deploy them as packages? There is a chasm dividing OS management and app management. The OS is the province of sysadmins, but apps are the province of developers. Ideally you want to bridge the two by having the environment "contain" the app, in a way that lets an application be automatically deployed from the newest code (eg., from Git), coordinated by an external system (eg., Jenkins), running inside an environment controlled by the configuration management system (eg., Puppet).