Re: [elephant-devel] some comments about cvs

2007-03-09 Thread Robert L. Read
Actually, when we put darcs in place, I think it will be easier to support a branch-and-merge strategy that should inflict less pain on the would be users; but I would like to thank Ian and all of the people who have tested for getting us this far allow. On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 21:51 -0500, Ian Es

Re: [elephant-devel] some comments about cvs

2007-03-09 Thread Ian Eslick
Sorry about that - some of the recent cvs instability is my fault. I've had some premature checkins. I currently am green on the non- migration backend tests for SBCL and ACL on Mac OS. I'm fixing the open migration issues today and tomorrow including beefing up the test suite for various

Re: [elephant-devel] A new Postmodern backend

2007-03-09 Thread Ian Eslick
Very cool! When we finish 0.6.1, we can throw it into the new darcs development tree as part of the 0.7.0 release plan. You might write some Trac tickets against it (what needs to be done to put it into a release, etc) so we can keep track of it. Did you learn anything about elephant that

Re: [elephant-devel] A new Postmodern backend

2007-03-09 Thread Robert L. Read
Wow. That is EXTREMELY cool! I will try to look at it this weekend. Thank you very much! On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 18:31 +0100, Henrik Hjelte wrote: > I have made a new elephant backend, db-postmodern. > It uses postgresql for storage, and the postmodern lisp socket interface > instead of clsql. T

[elephant-devel] A new Postmodern backend

2007-03-09 Thread Henrik Hjelte
I have made a new elephant backend, db-postmodern. It uses postgresql for storage, and the postmodern lisp socket interface instead of clsql. The implementation is actually quite different from the clsql backend. db-postmodern uses prepared queries and stored procedures for performance reasons.

[elephant-devel] some comments about cvs

2007-03-09 Thread Henrik Hjelte
Here are some observations on the latest cvs version. /Henrik Hjelte Testmigration, line 182: (:dbcn-spc-pst (elephant::%index-cache (find-class 'ipfoo) should be: (elephant::dbcn-spc-pst (elephant::%index-cache (find-class 'ipfoo) Also, bdb doesn't compile on linux/sbcl/amd64: ; $ gcc