<div>My thoughts on this topic are as follows. </div>
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<div>I'm finding it to be a frustrating task implementing new database based functions because of the significant differences in the way each 'plugin' does the storage and creation. To implement something in database full, it needs to be implemented in three different plugins. In that respect, a flat file is a plus.
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<div>On the negative side, I'm agreed that it does get unmaintainable quickly in a larger deployment.</div>
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<div>If I had to pick one over the other, I'd go with a database or otherwise centrally located store so that regions could simply reload their configuration (from the central store) when an estate level change is made.
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<div>Best Regards<br><br>Teravus</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/19/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Sean Dague</b> <<a href="mailto:sean@dague.net">sean@dague.net</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 09:33:43AM -0500, Teravus Ovares wrote:<br>> As I said before, I don't have an qualms about using a file storage
<br>> mechanism, so long as it can be dynamically saved to and loaded from.<br><br>Well, I do. :) The moment you are trying to manage anything large, flat<br>files are your worst enemy.<br><br>If there remains a diagreement here I would suggest that land storage
<br>ends up being a ILandStore (or IEstateStore) interface, and those of us<br>that want sane control of it can put it into a database. :) An ini only<br>pattern here is a dead end that I don't want to see us heading down.
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