RE: [FormProc-developer] Re: Why FormProc? Was RE: [ANN] JPublish 0.8 Released

[Anthony E. <me...@an...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brad Cox [mailto:bc...@vi...] 
> Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 9:33 PM
> To: Anthony Eden; FormProc Developer List
> Subject: RE: [FormProc-developer] Re: Why FormProc? Was RE: 
> [ANN] JPublish 0.8 Released
> 

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> That's exactly why jwaa deals with entire websites statically. It was 
> driving me nuts keeping all the stray bits straight with jsp and 
> before that, perl.

How do you deal with many developers working on the same site?  Do you
have a centralized compile system or does everyone have to compile
everything locally first?  Or both?

> The whole flesibility argument has given me an abiding dislike for 
> configuration "languages" as a solution to mutability/flesibility. 
> There's a whole rant on this in one of the jwaa articles. Compile it 
> with jikes and you get sensible error messages. Botch a configuration 
> file and you get to debug exceptions from code you may not even have 
> source for.

That's why I love open source. ;-)  Another thing to consider: a good
development cycle includes testing.  Thus, your testing should locate
problems before going into production and you should be testing whether
or not you compile, right?  So is the compiling still a necessary step?

Sincerely,
Anthony Eden