Re: [binarycloud-dev] PHP Files used during make (i.e.LangStrings)

[Alex B. <en...@tu...>]

> we have different xml files, translated to php and used only during  make
> (i.e. the language or image repository). These files are compiled to php and
> stored in the build tree (regarding to the docs).

First, because I can see the need potentially for admin tools that would
need access to those arrays.

Second, because I don't want to incur the overhead of re-parsing a set of
_big_ xml files on every make - reading native php structures is _much_
faster and I want make to be as fast as possible.

The first reason is a bit tenuous, but the second is solid :)

> We use them only during make and the php structures are not used on runtime
> (or are they?). So why creating them as files? Isn't it enough to parse the
> xml files and build the array internally, doing the replacement work and
> write the outputfiles? Why mess up the build tree with those files?
>
> Ok, it's not pain in the a** to have them there and the only advantage I see
> is for debugging purposes.

How would there be an advantage for debugging if those files we not in the
tree?

You could be 100% certain that they were not being accessed, unless you
specifically wrote a module to access them :)

_a