On Mar 30, 2007, at 11:33 PM, Carl Karsten wrote:

> I disagree with the "basically does all the things that views do"  
> if you take
> into consideration the maintainability factor.  to me a view is  
> just metadata,
> no code.  SPT is code.  code is more flexible than metadata, but  
> also more
> fragile.

        I've had the opposite experience. All my VFP apps in the last few  
years worked against non-VFP backends, and they all used the same  
classes to access the data. They were rock-solid.

> What I would like to see in dabo is some sort of meta data based  
> thing.  but I
> am still very foggy as to exactly what it is and how it would be  
> implemented.

        This is only a stumbling block for developers coming with a VFP  
mindset who are used to only thinking in views.

-- Ed Leafe
-- http://leafe.com
-- http://dabodev.com



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