Re: New AWS-based website

[Thomas Locke <thomas@12boo.net>]

On 04/12/2012 04:07 PM, Maciej Sobczak wrote:
> On 12 Kwi, 09:45, Thomas Locke<tho...@12boo.net>  wrote:
>
>> Did you use templates_parser for the HTML,
>
> No, I don't see any benefit from it (ironically, this is how PHP was
> born!).



I think it's nice when you have a few dedicated HTML people, who you'd
rather not have mucking around in the Ada code. You can agree on a set
of tags and leave them to work their magic on the GUI side of things.

At least that's how I've used templating systems in the past (primarily
XSLT based). It's a model I feel works very well.

I've yet to use templates_parser for anything "serious". The only thing
I've done with it is the AWS status page and some basic tests.




> I also did not use the AWS session management, as I find it not very
> convincing. Any nontrivial session-based operation requires the
> implementation of additional data structures, which can easily
> accommodate the complete session handling. There is no reason to use
> multiple layers of mapping data structures for something that is a
> consistent functional block.



Ahh yes, the AWS session management system. I too feel that it would be
nice if it were a bit more "flexible", for lack of a better word.




> In other words, considering that there are significant functionality
> areas of AWS which I did not use, I would very welcome a streamlined
> or core version of the library that provides only the most essential
> features.
> Let's call it "AWS Express Edition" or something like that... ;-)


AWS Express Edition - that's a pretty darn good idea! What say you
Pascal?  :o)


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