I have a problem and what I think is the solution. I feel that my solution is not new but don't know of any that have solved the problem the way I would like to.
I write custom websites that integrate with an off the shelf cross media platform. We have three installs of this platform. Dev, staging and production. Nothing surprising here I bet.
I want to promote files from one runtime to another as I develop.
I think installers can be complex for junior level developers to work with so I would like to develop a tool that will package files for deployment and do it in a way that the junior level developers on the team will be able to pick up and make deployment easily with out a senior level dev to setup anything.
So I'm thinking zip file with an xml manifest and all of the files ... kinda like .net nuke does for a module. Anyone know of any open source libs out there that do this sort of thing already?