[REBOL] Re: Commercializing Rebol
From: robert:muench:robertmuench at: 17-May-2001 14:46
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> Subject: [REBOL] Re: Commercializing Rebol
> And this is precisely how the TclKit-MetaKit combination works. Your
> development files are laid out as you like them, but the TclKit
> scripting document creator program combines them into a single,
> executable file. The components are reached through the database
> system.
Hi, I really like the idea using a small database system to
distribute/store/update script (components) on different systems. Imagine a
collection of Rebol scripts (collection of functions, generators etc. short:
components you can re-use and combine) stored in a database and now an
appliction, which let's you "construct" your new application from these building
blocks... I like it!
> concerns and reservations. One is the idea that any data is ever
> encoded in a non-directly readable format. Legacy problems become
> built-in, and this seems to be a bad design choice make from the very
> outset!
That's right. But I think there is no silver-bullet:
1. We want fast and comfortable handling --> database system but not human
readable.
2. We want human readability, instant access --> plain text files.
IMO, all the data from the database should be exportable into a human/machine
(XML?) readable style to be processed in an other way. Having two set of data
might help: A text represantion of everything, just as reference and a working
version integrated into a database. Robert
