Stack file organisation

Jan Schenkel janschenkel at yahoo.com
Wed Dec 18 02:04:01 EST 2002


--- Sarah <sarahr at genesearch.com.au> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am about to start a major project and I have
> various ideas about 
> stack organisation that I wanted to float past the
> group and see if 
> anyone had any experience or advice either way.
> 
> My application will have a set of interface stacks
> that do not need to 
> be writable and a single data stack that is written
> to. This seems to 
> lead to two possibilities:
> 
> 1. Make it all in a single file and separate out all
> the sub-stacks 
> when I build.
> 2. Make the interface stacks in one file (and build
> into a single file) 
> and the data stack in another.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> Having written all this, I think I am swaying
> towards the separate 
> sub-stacks option, but if anyone has any warnings or
> suggestions, now's 
> the time :-)
> 
> Thanks,
> Sarah
> 

Hi Sarah,

Depending on the number of records and the type of
data in them, you might be better off using a 'real'
database, such as Valentina, to store your data.


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