Re: [elephant-devel] Elephant uses; XML backup

2008-07-29 Thread Henrik Hjelte
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Ian Eslick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone recall the status of the project to provide an XML backup of an > Elephant database? gp-export exports and imports objects to s-exps, and it is designed to be very configurable and have a lot of hooks, so maybe yo

Re: [elephant-devel] Elephant uses; XML backup

2008-07-28 Thread Ian Eslick
What I'm really trying to do is share a repository between a 32-bit machine and a 64-bit machine, but the serializers are incompatible (64- bit fixnum vs. 32-bit fixnum). Thus I can't use postmodern as an intermediary. The only way to migrate production data to my test server is to have so

Re: [elephant-devel] Elephant uses; XML backup

2008-07-28 Thread Leslie P. Polzer
> Or s-exp. Just something I can parse and manipulate with text- > oriented tools. :) Good for you, 'cause gp-export already has a sexp exporter. There's no import, though. ___ elephant-devel site list elephant-devel@common-lisp.net http://common-lis

Re: [elephant-devel] Elephant uses; XML backup

2008-07-28 Thread Ian Eslick
It shouldn't be too hard to do this, but I don't have time to build one from scratch and I vaguely recall a discussion along these lines. Writing an exporter for gp-export should be trivial. Yuk, XML. Or s-exp. Just something I can parse and manipulate with text- oriented tools. :) Als

Re: [elephant-devel] Elephant uses; XML backup

2008-07-28 Thread Leslie P. Polzer
> Does anyone recall the status of the project to provide an XML backup > of an Elephant database? Not at all... > It shouldn't be too hard to do this, but I > don't have time to build one from scratch and I vaguely recall a > discussion along these lines. Writing an exporter for gp-export sho

[elephant-devel] Elephant uses; XML backup

2008-07-27 Thread Ian Eslick
Does anyone recall the status of the project to provide an XML backup of an Elephant database? It shouldn't be too hard to do this, but I don't have time to build one from scratch and I vaguely recall a discussion along these lines. Also, I'd like to invite people to write to me directly w