Dave, you're heading for a lightbulb moment, if you have a enum which
has the value of dev, test, prod (or something else depending on the
environment), and you use it in conditionals you end up with
special-case code in the app, which is what I think is bad and you seem
not to prefer.
Enjoy the duckies and give those critters a rub up the wrong way from me :).
Al.
Dave Newton wrote:
--- On Sun, 6/29/08, Al Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Just to follow this on, as I understand it dev, test, and
prod map to configuration sets which are configured into
the system at development time. Therefore the developer
determines what the dev, test, and prod settings are so
althought the configuration is in the application it is
not alterable by the tech support people.
The code couldn't be changed by tech support people either? Apparently I'm
being a bit thick today (one more day before vacation; maybe I shut down a bit
prematurely). I sure don't want my app code to change across environments. I'd
*greatly* prefer not to have any special-case code in the app itself.
If I (or others, like the DBAs, server admins, whoever) can't change
configurations easily enough to make even pathological environments work then
my configuration management is broken. I (the dev) should be able to provide
configurations easily (what that means is pretty dependent on the app,
environment, required resources, etc.) and, when necessary (and possible),
provide mechanisms to edit existing (or create new) configurations. The
environment itself may be able to create and/or consume configurations, and
provide config mgmt when special needs arise.
I'm still missing something important in the thread; I'm going to give up and
watch the baby duckies and whiny baby bluejays and irritate tiny critters with
my macro lens (which I *also* don't know anything about, so I'm batting a
thousand today! ;)
Dave
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