On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 5:01 PM, Michal Balda <li...@michalbalda.cz> wrote:
> Hi, > the short answer is: not yet. > > The back story is: We have been experimenting with GemStone and Tugrik at > work. While Tugrik appears to work very well (even though it is new and not > yet finished), I found the overall architecture (Tugrik+Mongo+Voyage) a bit > complicated. Tugrik is meant to be a replacement for Voyage-Mongo but > actually uses parts of its implementation and behavior. I understand that > it does so to mimic Voyage-Mongo so that switching from Mongo to GemStone > is relatively painless. That does not fit our use case though - we don't > need a replacement for Mongo since we haven't used it in the first place. > We would also like to have something that we could possibly maintain > ourselves, should the priorities of Esteban or Dale change in a few years > (I don't want this to sound negative, I am sure they would not drop the > support just because they want to, but I understand they are very busy and > for us it is a certain risk we would like to mitigate). > > While playing with Tugrik I came up with a few ideas so I started a clean > Pharo image with the following task in mind: find a way of getting objects > from Pharo to GemStone and back, as simply as possible, without any > unnecessary dependencies. In other words, I wanted to see if I could create > a simpler Pharo-to-GemStone persistence solution than the existing > Tugrik+Mongo+Voyage stack. As of now it's still in an early phase but I > already have something that could work. For the meetup in Zürich I want to > have something to show (a small demo), or, if I run into any conceptual > issues, to have a topic for discussion if anyone's interested. > > I won't release it publicly until I am sure it works well. But I can > guarantee you that if anything exciting does emerge, this mailing list will > learn about it. It will definitely not be exclusive for the people who > attend the meetup. I just want to use the opportunity of the meetup to get > early feedback and/or input, maybe it will trigger a discussion about > important issues that I haven't thought about yet. I am not at all a > GemStone expert so the possibility is there. > > > Hi, OK, I understand. Thanks for the explanation. BTW, for your implementation, do you use ServerBlocks [1] ? It may be handy otherwise. Best regards, [1 ] https://github.com/GsDevKit/GsDevKit_home/blob/master/docs/articles/gsDevKitServerBlocks.md > Michal > > > > On 18.10.2016 14:38, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote: > > Hi, > > I would love to be in Zurich, but I obviously can't :( > So... is there a way to get some more info about that "Gemstone-based > persistence framework for Pharo"? And who is Michal? Last name? > > Thanks, > > > -- > Mariano > http://marianopeck.wordpress.com > > > -- Mariano http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
