On 2/18/11 6:48 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote:

I don't find the feature parity close enough that it "is easily worked
around by copying the script to a text file and including it that way".

Some of the things that are "best practice" (IMO) for stack scripting
just don't work when the script is saved to a text file and included:

- private functions and handlers (don't work at all - cause an error)
- script local variables (still work - but are not script local, so you
may get name space pollution and dreadful-to-debug problems)

Good points. I never tried using private handlers, and namespace issues don't seem to hit me much. Too much old HC habit I guess, where we had to consider that stuff all the time.


and some features are just unavailable

- can't use password-protected stacks, so you cannot protect stack
scripts on clients' sites

But we can't use stacks at all in iRev yet. Or did you mean for CGI? For old-style CGI you should be able to use password protected stacks, but you'll have to protect them with the 3.5 engine. The password scheme was changed in 4.0, and the 3.5 engine doesn't work with it.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jac...@hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com

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