Re: [WebDNA] Snow Leopard and v7
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2011
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 107705
interpreted = N
texte = >=20 > Was not a text file and a .db the same? well.. you could look at it like that.. but once the db is opened.. then = the db lives especially in RAM... and so for example you could have = changes to your db data in RAM and the disk copy would not even know it = yet (until you did a [closedatabase..]). But the flat cart files = always have all their changes made, each and every time, to that flat = cart file, on disk; there is no RAM copy of the flat cart file, as such. > I can read and write for a .db file. I do not understand what you are saying here ^^^ > Are there no shopping cart files now? I am not sure what you are asking here ^^^ If webdna 7 can still work with the cart files (even though = depreciated), then there *will be* those cart files on your HD. I have = not tried it to know... on v7. >=20 > If the old commerce tags are going away, what are we supposed to use? Well the hope is that someone would write a great new cart module with = all modern up to date features.. and sell it to this list.. or provide = it to WSC for I forget what compensation. Ask them if you are thinking = that someone might be you. Meanwhile each developer is winging it on their own terms. =20 Ken said here that he wrote his replacement system already. For myself.. all my *shopping* clients are still using v.6 ... = ironically with a legacy shopping system that does NOT use the flat cart = files. But it is not good/modern enough to be the candidate to replace = the flat cart file system... or else I would have already looked into = connecting the original author with WSC compensation. If I get future = shopping clients on webdna I am likely to write my own system at that = point. > Thank you for the links. I have seen that, but I guess I would = like to see the list of what 7 does support. everything but those commerce tags that use the old flat cart files... = AFAIK (pretty sure). -G=
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>=20 > Was not a text file and a .db the same? well.. you could look at it like that.. but once the db is opened.. then = the db lives especially in RAM... and so for example you could have = changes to your db data in RAM and the disk copy would not even know it = yet (until you did a [closedatabase..]). But the flat cart files = always have all their changes made, each and every time, to that flat = cart file, on disk; there is no RAM copy of the flat cart file, as such. > I can read and write for a .db file. I do not understand what you are saying here ^^^ > Are there no shopping cart files now? I am not sure what you are asking here ^^^ If webdna 7 can still work with the cart files (even though = depreciated), then there *will be* those cart files on your HD. I have = not tried it to know... on v7. >=20 > If the old commerce tags are going away, what are we supposed to use? Well the hope is that someone would write a great new cart module with = all modern up to date features.. and sell it to this list.. or provide = it to WSC for I forget what compensation. Ask them if you are thinking = that someone might be you. Meanwhile each developer is winging it on their own terms. =20 Ken said here that he wrote his replacement system already. For myself.. all my *shopping* clients are still using v.6 ... = ironically with a legacy shopping system that does NOT use the flat cart = files. But it is not good/modern enough to be the candidate to replace = the flat cart file system... or else I would have already looked into = connecting the original author with WSC compensation. If I get future = shopping clients on webdna I am likely to write my own system at that = point. > Thank you for the links. I have seen that, but I guess I would = like to see the list of what 7 does support. everything but those commerce tags that use the old flat cart files... = AFAIK (pretty sure). -G=
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