Andrew Burchill wrote: > Hi Peter, > > On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 8:16 PM, peter green wrote: > =20 >> I'm dissapointed at the lack of response (no replies either on-list or >> privately and only a handful of hits on the hg repo) :(. Did I make my >> post look too much like an advert or something? >> =20 > I had been looking out for movement on the ISIS project, have hg'd a clon= e, > and thrown at a httpd, but my development system must be out of whack, > as I was getting a page served that mentioned a class error on line > 328 of index.php > since then have not been able to put any further time to looking for caus= e. > =20 Could you tell me what exactly the error was? >> I'm also not sure whether it is better to store >> datasheets as BLOBs in the database or as seperate files. The former >> keeps everything in one place and means there is no possibility of the >> DB and the filesystem getting out of sync but it may also make database >> dumps rather large. >> >> =20 > > Is it possible to have both? > in my case I have a large number of categorized pdf documents in a hierar= chical > directory structure, collated over a dozen years... > If I could point ISIS to a link in my resource folder and store a link > to either a single file > or a directory of files relating to a single part, that would reduce > duplication and allow > more flexibility in usage of data resources. > =20 Possiblly though i'm not sure how well it would fit with the design of=20 ISIS as a web based DB, i'll have to think about that. --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .