If you are looking for a way to distribute your Symfony application - either as a deployment package, to host on another server without Symfony libs, or giving it out as a product you could always use the Symfony sandbox to do so. However, this becomes hard to maintain when Symfony versions keep getting updated, and you have to keep your sandbox updated. So whats the best way to do this?

There is a great post over at the “Left on the Web” blog, that walks you through how to distribute your Symfony application enbedded within your project by using svn:externals. Be sure to check it out.

There is a great thread of posts in the Symfony Users Google Group about good practices on how to run multiple Symfony versions on the same machine. The different tips include:

• Installing different Symfony versions via PEAR
• Creating different Symbolic links to different Symfony versions (Eg symfony10, symfony11, symfony12…)
• Including each different version via your include path

Be sure to check it out