RE: How are glom applications distributed?

[Stroobandt Serge <Serge Stroobandt kce fgov be>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Murray Cumming
Sent: 16 March 2010 16:51
To: Stroobandt Serge
Cc: glom-devel-list gnome org
Subject: Re: How are glom applications distributed?

On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 16:45 +0100, Stroobandt Serge wrote:
> > How are glom applications distributed?

> Should I assume that you want all users to share the same database, not
copies of it?

Actually, I have both use cases.


> > Are they contained in the glom operator document file, 

> Ideally multiple users would all access the same .glom file. You could
give them copies of the file, but that would eventually be awkward if
the structure changes.

So, if I understand it correctly the user interface layout is contained in the .glom file.
From a maintenance perspective & IMHO, it would be better to limit .glom files to be a kind of key or pointer 
to the database where the layout is stored.

This would still not be a web UI application -which I do not necessarily need-. However, changes to the user 
interface layout would immediately propagate to the operator users.
So there you have again a good reason to store files in the DB ;-)

But don't worry; this takes not away from still considering glom as a quick application development platform. 
However, on the long run, above suggestion is something that I really think should need to be considered.

Serge

> or is this merely an access pointer to the database where then the web-application is stored?

> There is not yet any web UI for glom files.

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