What's your my-config look like again? Sent from my iPhone
On Nov 19, 2009, at 11:10 AM, Sebastian Tennant <seb...@smolny.plus.com> wrote: > Hi Ian, > > Sorry for the late reply. I have a rather annoying cold at the > moment. > > Quoth Ian Eslick <esl...@media.mit.edu>: >> I'm ostensibly the primary developer on Elephant; the three prior >> primary >> developers have been inactive for years now. Leslie has recently >> been kind >> enough to step up and help with user support and bug fixes and will >> certainly >> be recognized in the 1.0 manual when we're ready for a final release >> (updating the manual has been one of the gating tasks). We all do >> our best >> to help and want Elephant to be as robust as possible. I in >> particular have >> been lousy at responding recently, but there are of course good >> reasons for >> that. > > I've no doubt there are. Glad to hear that Leslie will be getting a > mention in > the 1.0 manual. He's been very patient with me!!! > >> Anyway, I'm sorry to hear that your experience has been so >> frustrating. >> Unfortunately, the 64-bit lisp + OS + BDB combinations have made >> things much >> more difficult than they once were. As an aside, Franz >> AllegroCache has most >> of the features of Elephant and has a great and responsive support >> staff. If >> you are frustrated with the state of free, volunteer-developed lisp >> libraries >> it is possible to pay to get more reliability and better support! > > Noted. > >> There are dozens of users of Elephant, some casual and some >> serious. Some >> are working on older versions of the library as their deployed >> systems are >> stable and not actively developed so not everyone is subject to >> problems with >> the current release. > > Naturally. > >> Leslie and I are just the most vocal on this list. > > Understood. > >> I'm running Elephant under ClozureCL these days and it works fine >> under Snow >> Leopard as well as Debian. > > Noted. > >> What's your current status, are you still stuck with the 'invalid >> argument' >> problems? > > Yeah, I'm afraid so (on my Mac). I've got an elephant-1.0 bdb 4.7 > store > working on a 32-bit Debian box with SBCL 1.0.30 but am having no > luck with the > Mac, even with CCL. I'll post a backtrace in a separate thread. > >> I think that a FAQ on the home page would be a great way to keep >> track of the >> kind of issues that you have experienced. Here is a first crack at >> it; >> please add your own experiences/observations and I'll post it on >> the home >> page. > > You've covered pretty much everything. Please find attached HTML > (which I hope > is a help). > > Regards, > > Sebastian > -- > Emacs' AlsaPlayer - Music Without Jolts > Lightweight, full-featured and mindful of your idyllic happiness. > http://home.gna.org/eap > > <elephant-1.0.html> > _______________________________________________ > elephant-devel site list > elephant-devel@common-lisp.net > http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/elephant-devel _______________________________________________ elephant-devel site list elephant-devel@common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/elephant-devel
