Why choose Revolution

[Richard Gaskin]

Hello Jose -
> Richard, thanks for your help.
> 
> Another question related to your article "Extending Message Path".
> 
> You talk about Script Limits, could these limits be changed? and if is
> not possible, what it means in terms of the application size/complexity?

As has been written before, the script limits affect only the number of 
scripts that can be inserted into the message path dynamically at 
runtime; in a licensed development environment no such limits apply, so 
you can have tools galore that use front- and backscripts as needed 
without penalty.

At runtime, you can have only 10 backscripts (and unfortunately Rev's 
full set of libraries currently occupy up to 8 of them, though I hope 
those will be concatenated in to a single backscript in the future; this 
was once a Bugzilla request that would take less than a day to 
implement, but I can find it now).

But you can have 50 libraries, which for your needs are probably at 
least as useful and Rev takes none of those slots at runtime.  As 
separate stacks, you can easily divide work up among multiple developers 
using libraries; I've done that a lot with contractors I've worked with, 
and these days most of my apps are driven by collections of reusable 
libraries.

As Jacque pointed out, each script is "limited" to about 4GB; certainly 
plenty to let you do what you need (I pity the fingers that type 4GB of 
code <g>).

And if you have an unusual app that truly needs more library and 
backscript slots (I haven't seen one yet but I suppose it's possible), 
Kevin at RunRev can negotiate a unique license for your needs on a 
case-by-case basis.

For team development you may also want to check out Chipp Walters' nifty
Magic Carpet, a tool to help manage check-in/check-out for stacks in 
small to medium teams with archiving, version control, and more, and it 
works on any standard FTP server with no specialized server configuration:
<http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/MagicCarpetCover/default.htm>

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