Ed Leafe wrote: > 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. >
um, opposite of what? code is flexible, views are metadata.. all other things equal, I doubt you would be able to make a case that code is more solid than metadata. >> 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. > That could be because non VFPers never got to work with such a thing, and so they don't know what they are missing. Or it could be that VFP Views were a good thing in the 90's, but have been surpassed with something we are not aware of. I find it hard to believe that plain old code is 'better'. I still think the concept of using specialized tools to maintain a wad of metadata has a benefit. It may help once I get a project that has more than 6 tables. right now I am just floating around in theory land. Carl K _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users Searchable Archives: http://leafe.com/archives/search/dabo-users This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/dabo-users/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
