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From: Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid>
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Subject: Re: tools for programming applets
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 13:51:06 +0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 26 May 2011 05:54:45 -0700, Alessio Stalla wrote:

> I'm not talking about disk space costs, duh! I'm talking about
> complexity especially, and also time, bandwidth... you can't duplicate a
> big DB at a snap of your fingers, and certainly I wouldn't do it *just
> to test one applet*. Would you duplicate an arbitrarily big web
> application to test the new version of a Flash app? Is simplicity not a
> value anymore?
>
Any self-respecting project will have a test version of the server on a 
development box. This will be a fully functional, cutting edge version of 
the server by definition and will usually only have a small database 
since most developers generally don't put more data in it than they need 
to support their test cases. 

This is the server that should be replicated for client development, not 
the production one. As a bonus, somebody has probably already needed to 
replicate it in order to develop the existing client programs, so it may 
also be easier to install on another development machine.


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