Re: Re: Skunkweb-list digest, Vol 1 #357 - 5 msgs

On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 09:20:44PM -0700, Matthew Bogosian wrote:
> This is probably not recommended (and I'd definitely consider going 
> with Jacob's suggestion first for obvious reasons), but if you're 
> looking for something quick and dirty, you can probably use the sw.conf 
> file itself. It may not be the best place to do your application 
> initialization (and it's probably a bad idea if you're developing 
> something which can be installed and used by others), but if you just 
> want to try something out, just tack a few lines onto the end of your 
> conf file (or include your custom file from sw.conf):

[etc] 

This sort of thing will usually work, but has been known to lead to
bizarre side-effects, as Drew memorably pointed out recently on this
list, writing:

  Importing AE.Component in sw.conf without first importing
  ae_component will make you want to kill yourself.

There isn't an absolute guarantee of a sane environment until after
the server has completely bootstrapped -- *after* the config has been
read.  Tread carefully!

js

-- 
Jacob Smullyan

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