SVN checkout or export for production environment?

Question

In a project I am working on, we have an ongoing discussion amongst the dev team - should the production environment be deployed as a checkout from the SVN repository or as

Answer 1

I would look into some deployment software like Capistrano (it's a ruby program)

I would personally use exporting a tagged copy of trunk instead of just exporting trunk if you are going to use be rolling your own solution or manually.