A repository is composed of
areas, which correspond to the MetaEdit+
user-visible concept of
project. In fact there are
two kinds of areas: logical areas
, which define access
rights and global variables for a project, and physical
areas
, which contain the actual data of a project, and are
visible in the directory structure of the repository.
The server
for MetaEdit+ is a
separate program with its own user interface: similar to the client, it consists
of an executable file and an image file. A server must be running for a
repository whenever a client tries to login to that repository. The server thus
normally runs on a machine which is routinely kept on all the time.