[erlang-questions] Re: Process Dictionary vs Proplist in Web Frameworks

[Ngoc Dao]

Steve,

So Yaws will stick with process dictionary?

Actually I am creating this:
http://github.com/ngocdaothanh/ale

It only adds some routing rules and MVC conventions to make Yaws
easier to use. A typical Ale application would have a front controller
behind Yaws' back. Behind Yaws' back, either process dictionary or
proplist can be used, and I want to decide which one to use.

Ngoc.


On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Steve Vinoski <vinoski@REDACTED> wrote:
> As does Yaws. The fact that a new process spawned by a request handler
> process can't access the Yaws data stored in the request handler process's
> dictionary sometimes comes up as an issue, but all in all it's not a
> frequent problem. Still, Klacke or I will soon be adding a function to Yaws
> to copy the necessary data into the process dictionary of a new process to
> allow users to avoid this problem, but again, from what I've seen the
> problem doesn't come up all that often in practice.
>
> --steve