[support] Site in development:

[J-P Stacey]

sander-martijn wrote:
> My question is why would you want to or need to?  

We're trying to work out ways of passing databases around in a 
development/test/production site, so with multiple codebases and multiple 
databases. When you do that, you can then be developing for some time before 
you realise that your new database's system table is still referencing the 
location of the theme/module files on the production or test server. It'd be 
nice to make sure automatically every request that that wasn't the case, and 
calling those two functions is a way to do it.

> content or template files as I am developing.  A lot less risky than 
> putting that code in and risking forgetting about it and going live with 
> it. 

Shouldn't be a problem: we're also running the Devel module, which is 
splurging every single query on every single page in the footer, and 
alerting us to our newer module, so it's unlikely we'll forget to turn them 
both off. But I take your point, so we'll put it on the project plan anyway.

Cheers,
J-P