How many libraries do you use in your apps?

[Richard Gaskin]

Just curious:  there are 50 slots available for libraries at runtime -
what's the greatest number you've ever shipped with an app?

I've never used more than about a dozen or so myself; I'd be interested
in hearing if anyone's exceeded 25, or gotten anywhere close to 50.

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[masmit]

One of my first attempts at something more than the basics involved  
screen-scraping a number of web-sites. I had a stack for each site,  
and eventually there were about 60 of them. However, I was doing  
"start using..." and "stop using..." to load them in and out as  
required.

Frankly, it was all a buggy, stinking mess :)

Mark


On 22 Jul 2008, at 01:42, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Just curious:  there are 50 slots available for libraries at  
> runtime - what's the greatest number you've ever shipped with an app?
>
> I've never used more than about a dozen or so myself; I'd be  
> interested in hearing if anyone's exceeded 25, or gotten anywhere  
> close to 50.
>
> --
>  Richard Gaskin
>  Fourth World Media Corporation
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[Sarah Reichelt-2]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Richard Gaskin
<ambassador@...> wrote:
> Just curious:  there are 50 slots available for libraries at runtime -
> what's the greatest number you've ever shipped with an app?
>
> I've never used more than about a dozen or so myself; I'd be interested in
> hearing if anyone's exceeded 25, or gotten anywhere close to 50.


I think I may have got up to about 8 in one app, but that was unusual.
I can't imaging trying to work with 50 or anything close.

Sarah
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[Jan Schenkel]

--- Richard Gaskin <ambassador@...> wrote:

> Just curious:  there are 50 slots available for
> libraries at runtime -
> what's the greatest number you've ever shipped with
> an app?
>
> I've never used more than about a dozen or so
> myself; I'd be interested
> in hearing if anyone's exceeded 25, or gotten
> anywhere close to 50.
>
> --
>   Richard Gaskin
>   Fourth World Media Corporation
>  

Well, when I was setting up a big project, my original
scheme was to have one library stack per 'entity' - so
a library for everything to do with customers,
suppliers, articles, general accounts, etc. Not
exactly a one-to-one mapping with all the database
tables, but still plenty of library stacks would have
been needed.

As soon as I realized it was going to take more
library stacks than allowed, I took a different
direction, 'clustering' the libraries - not a problem
because Revolution allows for really long scripts (as
opposed to HyperCard's 32K limit) so this could be
easily compartmentalized.

Of course, I could have also padded my scripts with a
check-load-use-unload cycle - but it would have been
more convenient if I could just have them all loaded
into memory at the same time and as different files on
disk.

Jan Schenkel.

Quartam Reports & PDF Library for Revolution
<http://www.quartam.com>

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[david bovill]

In a shipped app - no more than 8, but in the development environment 49 at
the latest count. I've been moving from having large mixed libraries to
smaller single use libraries recently, which helps organise them.
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[Andre Garzia-3]

Richard,

In my CGIs I have anywhere from 3 to 10 libraries loaded. They are all
small specific collection of routines. The limit  I usually reach is
the scriptLimits. I think I tend to create code that generates code at
runtime, so, my generated code must be 10 lines or less. If you can't
think where to use meta-programing, just think of macros, code
analysis and little parsers...

Andre

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 9:42 PM, Richard Gaskin
<ambassador@...> wrote:

> Just curious:  there are 50 slots available for libraries at runtime -
> what's the greatest number you've ever shipped with an app?
>
> I've never used more than about a dozen or so myself; I'd be interested in
> hearing if anyone's exceeded 25, or gotten anywhere close to 50.
>
> --
>  Richard Gaskin
>  Fourth World Media Corporation
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