Oh, I think using "queryfiles" for most SQL rather than
conditionalizing all the Tcl code was probably a good choice, I just
used to wonder why the heck use XML for defining those queryfiles,
rather than Tcl (sort of like the AOLserver config.tcl file). I've
asked this before in other threads though, so I know the answer now:
There were other reasons at the time that made XML seem more
attractive, like the fact that people were making loud noises about
wanting to port all the Tcl code to a Python version of OpenACS.
Of course that never happened, and probably never will. But if it
ever does happen, those language-neutral XML query files will (as it
stands now anyway) be there waiting for them. (Who knows, maybe those
SMLserver
guys will want to guys will want to write OpenACS modules in Standard
ML. Maybe in some alternate universe.)
But while all that is useful to think about for whatever lessons it
may teach us for future projects, it's all water long since under the
bridge as far as OpenACS is concerned now.
Regardless, Lars's original proposal is much simpler and more focussed
than most of this discussion. And I don't see any serious problem
regardless of which way the decision goes on that proposal.
