Or soiling yourself, aka incontinence... Isn't English illogical fun! Cody
On Wed, May 8, 2024, 10:41 AM Dale Henrichs < dale.henri...@gemtalksystems.com> wrote: > To me as a non-native speaker it means: ground layer you can build/grow on > > > Haha, Soil can also be thought of as "ground up stone" :) > > Dale > > On Wed, May 8, 2024 at 7:13 AM Norbert Hartl <norb...@hartl.name> wrote: > >> >> >> Am 06.05.2024 um 16:47 schrieb Dirk Nel <dirkockert...@gmail.com>: >> >> I'll definitely check it out..! and for those who are not in the know... >> what inspired the name? :) >> >> >> - I like the word >> - It has only four letters which qualifies as a class prefix >> - To me as a non-native speaker it means: ground layer you can build/grow >> on >> >> Norbert >> >> >> On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 at 17:47, Tim Mackinnon <tim@testit.works> wrote: >> >>> That's really exciting news... appreciate you sharing it with the wider >>> community (I know when you mentioned its existence a while back I went and >>> watched the Esug recordings to get more info, and looked at some of the >>> extensive test cases to get a feel on what it looked like - its neat). >>> >>> Having multiple options for persisting data (from simple Fuel up to Soil >>> and Glorp and Gemstone) is very useful. >>> >>> Tim >>> >>> On Wed, 24 Apr 2024, at 12:52 PM, Norbert Hartl wrote: >>> >>> ...we said at last ESUG that there will be a release soonish but as >>> usual it doesn't go that fast. >>> >>> But now we are very happy to announce that Soil has a first public >>> release v1. So what is soil? >>> >>> Soil is an object oriented database in pharo <http://pharo.org/>. It is >>> transaction based having ACID transactions. It has binary search >>> capabilities with SkipList and BTree+ indexes. It aims to be a simple yet >>> powerful database making it easy to develop with, easy to debug with, easy >>> to inspect, ... >>> >>> More details at https://github.com/ApptiveGrid/Soil >>> >>> This release is still considered early stage because >>> >>> >>> - although in ApptiveGrid there are over 4000 instances of it and >>> there are other users there isn't a wider range of use cases, yet. So it >>> is >>> not fully battle tested. This just as reminder when you start compaining >>> I >>> need somewhere to point my finger to and say "I told you!" ;) >>> - there are few things missing that you might expect like garbage >>> collection, etc. >>> >>> >>> So but it is definetely usable and awaiting the brave ones of you to >>> try. >>> >>> Hopy you enjoy it! >>> >>> Norbert & Marcus >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Esug-list mailing list -- esug-l...@lists.esug.org >>> To unsubscribe send an email to esug-list-le...@lists.esug.org >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Esug-list mailing list -- esug-l...@lists.esug.org >>> To unsubscribe send an email to esug-list-le...@lists.esug.org >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Esug-list mailing list -- esug-l...@lists.esug.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to esug-list-le...@lists.esug.org >> >
