[elephant-devel] Development tools

2006-11-15 Thread Pierre THIERRY
If I ain't mistaken, currently Elephant only has a CVS, and no bug tracker of any sort. Before or after 0.6.1, could you consider switching to subversion and trac, as they are provided by common-list.net? It could help possible contributors to see what remains to be done (comments and attached pat

Re: [elephant-devel] Concurrency problem?

2006-11-15 Thread Ian Eslick
Ok, I'll be hacking on this tomorrow and just got some VM's running including the latest Ubuntu release so can test SBCL under it. I'm focusing on HEAD primarily with a goal of moving towards an 0.6.1 release in the near future. Make sure you clean the DB's using the script (delscript.sh or somet

Re: [elephant-devel] Concurrency problem?

2006-11-15 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Pierre THIERRY dies 10/11/2006 hora 03:00: > > Could be the new SBCL not playing nice with some assumption left in > > 0.6.0. > I'll install a sarge chroot and test this within it. Well, in a sarge chroot, I could run the test suite for the BDB backend with SBCL. I even figured how to do t

Re: [elephant-devel] Querying Advice

2006-11-15 Thread Ian Eslick
It's not entirely misleading. Berkeley DB is a database in the sense that it provides efficient indexing and retrieval. However it's much lower level than SQL (and is often used to implement relational databases). Elephant is an ODB in the sense that BDB - it stores objects, values and can effic

Re: [elephant-devel] Querying Advice

2006-11-15 Thread Ian Eslick
Daniel, There are a couple of things about the Elephant model that should be made clear. Elephant is not a very high level DB system. It's focus is persistence of data. In effect, it is a collection of indexing mechanisms and a metaobject protocol that helps us to store/retrieve data. There a