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[Brett Stilwell]

On 9/3/05, csnyder <chsnyder at gmail.com> wrote:
> But there's another angle to this: a well-planned project should be
> easy to deploy. If each developer has to install XAMPP, edit their
> local Apache config, create and initialize the database, and create a
> local configuration file before they can start hacking the code, you
> will collectively figure out how to streamline the process early on.
> 
> Document the install process and put it in a docs folder in your
> project, along with an sql dump of the database structure and whatever
> test data you work with. (Or use a remote connection to a single
> database.)

Absolutely.  Every developer should understand how AMP is setup.  How
php.ini and httpd.conf are configured.  etc.  Every developer should
be required to install his own dev station based on the dev team docs.

Once that is understood, source control really comes into play with
local working copies vs commited files, branches for bug fixing vs new
release, version release tags, etc.

BP