Re: [elephant-devel] Representational Question

2008-03-05 Thread Paul Legato
I'd like to add my two cents, since I'm in a somewhat similar position - RoR programmer looking at replacing RoR with an object database and Lisp. Ruby (and PHP, Java, and almost all other languages commonly used for web programming) are object-oriented, while relational database systems are not.

Re: [elephant-devel] Major elephant upgrade

2008-03-05 Thread Ian Eslick
I've posted my development repository as elephant-unstable alongside the main elephant branch. (i.e. http://www.common-lisp.net/project/elephant/darcs/elephant-unstable) I'll post incremental patches somewhat frequently. Don't expect many of the tests to pass yet. Please write to me offlin

Re: [elephant-devel] Major elephant upgrade

2008-03-05 Thread Leslie P. Polzer
> We have a lot of bug fixes and postmodern stuff in the current tip of > the head; we just need to make sure that we can recover to that point if > necessary, or to make an intermediate release. I'd like to get the PM connection reaper applied before the next release gets out. I'll try to write