[Seaside] Re: Serving static files from an external web server

[Philippe Marschall]

2008/2/13, Yar Hwee Boon <hboon at motionobj.com>:
> I am still wrapping my head around how WAFileLibrary is working in
> v2.8. But I would suggest to leave WAFileLibrary as it is in 2.8, but
> provide the ability to toggle the behavoir of WAFileLibrary /
> #myResourceName to generate url between (a) the current way - served
> by Seaside, and (b) another static path.

Hi

Would you find filing a bug for this at: http://bugs.squeak.org/
(squeak packages, seaside) so that it doesn't get lost?

Cheers
Philippe

> Resources can continue to be versioned in MC. For smaller deployments
> or quick testing purposes, (a) can be used without requiring any
> additional set up. (b) can be used to serve the resources via KOM,
> Swazoo, httpd, etc. Other than for production/efficiency purposes, a
> key advantage of (b) is that during development, changing a JS/CSS
> file on disk will instantly reflect upon browser refresh...
>
> Additional interfaces such as FTP/webdav access can simply be built on
> top of a static file, via (b).
>
> --
> Hwee-Boon
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