[Tutor] Classes and Databases

Alan Gauld alan.gauld at btinternet.com
Mon Nov 17 02:38:28 CET 2008


"Jojo Mwebaze" <jojo.mwebaze at gmail.com> wrote

> Thanks Allan... we have used CVS for the base system.. but for users
> provided functions, we think for having them persistent in the 
> database..

Thats what I don't understand. I can't think of a single good reason
to do that. I can see the point of putting the metadata in a
database to allow searches but storing code in a database
just seems like making things much harder than it needs be.
Why not just store links into the source files?

Alan G 




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