[thelist] CVS questions

[Richard Bennett]

Hi,
From: "Seb" <seb at members.evolt.org>
> Concurrently or consecutively? (Concurrent, which is the "C" in "CVS" is
at
> the same time. Consecutively is one after the other.)

I meant concurrently .

> If all you're doing is changing strings and images, reference them through
> external resource files that can be used globally throughout your code.
> That way, you just need to wrap up your CVS release scripts with a
> deployment script that utilises the appropriate resources.

That is what i want to do.
But I'm not clear, does CVS have this functionality built in, or do I have
to write a Perl script to parse all the files before building a new release?

> You don't mention what language/platform you're using, so in general, just
> create a script that defines appropriate variables, and include it at the
> top of each page/script. Then replace your hard-coded names with
variables,
> such that:
>
> <title>My Current Site</title>
>
> becomes
> <title><%= site_name %></title>

CVS would be setup on a OpenBSD server, running Perl/Apache

Thanks for the comments.
Richard.