Prefs and Settings - best practices

[Chipp Walters]

Hi Richard,

For various reasons, we choose not to use MC on the server. The big one 
being it's unusual high use of resources per connection. Though Pierre 
has a nice workaround for it using Perl (or is it PHP?), we pretty much 
standarize on either MySQL or MS SQLserver.

I ran into this problem with Item Wizard launch/config files in our 
Hemingway Content Management System. Originally I had authored them as 
small read-only stacks, but then found I couldn't create them 
dynamically from the server w/out installing the MC engine, which we 
didn't want to do. I ended up re-authoring them in XML.

So, now, I think carefully about whether or not the file can be created 
in XML, and if so, I tend to use it instead of stacks. BTW, I think I 
remember Geoff Canyon ahwile ago created a STACK->XML->STACK utility. 
Pretty cool, but I couldn't figure out what I'd do with it, now I know!

best,

Chipp

Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Chipp Walters wrote:
> 
>> And, because stacks are difficult to create (on the fly) from a 
>> server, I generally only use them if I have to store some sort of 
>> binary data (logo) with pref files.
> 
> 
> What sorts of issues have you found?