[CFCDev] cfc paths

[Robby L.]

Not to be the odd one out, but I for one, _don't_ think there should be 
relative cfc calling built in to createobject() cfinvoke et all. I think it 
provides more problems and questions on useage than it solves. Jim's 
mentioned a few that would be apart of the "relative situation". 
maintainability would go out the window as well, in general. (unless your 
dynamic pathing all of your component references). If you're needing 
something that takes 'slash pathing' then the udf at cflib does a damn good 
job, though I've rarely used it. Personally I wouldn't mind seeing cfimport 
expanded to be able to call in a set of 'classes' from a package directory. 
It would give you the extendability you're looking for in redistribution and 
allows for a more sound approach IMO of course. (removing the base template 
calling only restriction will help)

In a perfect world you'd have all shared servers allocating different 
instances for each site. CFMX's requirements in hardware certainly hampers 
this situation. The weight of BlueDragons'  instance on another hand....

I'm on Crystal Tech as well Jim, have been for a while with several 
accounts, honestly I can't blame them for anything. I noticed when they 
brought in the 'add your own mappings' that they have reserved the com 
mapping. I love the convention, but I could see why the death of it's use on 
their part. Heh, try being a mach-ii developer to boot. From what I gathered 
in a light email conversation with a CT tech on the issue it's been going 
off the hotplate faster than domain names on ebay in the 90s. All in all 
when it comes to conventions such as package naming, ColdFusion and 
sharedhosting isn't going to play nice. period.

Again, nothing against realative paths in general, if you need them it's 
possible with a little coldfusion api comming into play. (except 
argument,extend naming) I personally think it's going to cause more pain 
than helps, and I'mspeaking as a 'shared hosting' customer.

Robby

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