Re: Package proposal

On Thursday 30 June 2005 15:10, Philippe Jausions wrote: > XML is still heavy for something that won't change much, at least for > the predefined units. XML isn't really heavy at all, it's parsed in a C library that's been massivly tweeked for performance, and the file will be cached in RAM by the OS's file system cache. I would be supprised if storing a file in XML format caused much of an issue. If it did, it could be cached using Cache_Lite - but I would be quite supprised if this was much faster at all. > For user-defined units, I don't think this package should command how > they are stored. Examples of different implementations could be given. Indeed, I mearly showed an XML file being loaded as an example. A PHP array could be provided, CSV, an SQL record set. My point was really that a database is a complete overkill for storing non-relational database. People are too keen on using databases when they should not be used. > The smart way to do is to allow new units to be imported into the > converter object, somethinge like addUnit() method. The rational is to > be able to use the package in an open environment where any user can > have as many custom units as they want... I agree entirly. -- Ian P. Christian ~ http://pookey.co.uk

Attachment: [application/pgp-signature]