Re: [elephant-devel] trouble getting going (with open-store, ...)

2006-11-09 Thread Ian Eslick
Still interested in hacking on elephant + MCL? Kilian Sprotte wrote: > Am 05.10.2006 um 16:21 schrieb Ian Eslick: > >> Thanks for the help! The next two weeks are busy for me, and then I >> hope to get back to hacking properly on Elephant. > > Thats good, so I can prepare this slowly :) Basic

Re: [elephant-devel] trouble getting going (with open-store, ...)

2006-10-05 Thread Robert L. Read
On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 16:52 -0700, Red Daly wrote: I am not sure if I follow entirely.  perhaps you can elaborate if I seem to have misunderstood.  I think the following program just loads the :elephant system and then calls open-store.  Is this what you mean? (asdf:operat

Re: [elephant-devel] trouble getting going (with open-store, ...)

2006-10-05 Thread Red Daly
I am not sure if I follow entirely. perhaps you can elaborate if I seem to have misunderstood. I think the following program just loads the :elephant system and then calls open-store. Is this what you mean? (asdf:operate 'asdf:load-op :elephant) (let ((store-spec '(:BDB "store"))) (elephant:o

Re: [elephant-devel] trouble getting going (with open-store, ...)

2006-10-05 Thread Ian Eslick
Could be some odd case in asdf. When you open a store, the appropriate asdf file is called to load the backend code if it isn't loaded. Try loading the :elephant system instead of :ele-bdb, then doing open-store and see what happens. I'll test this on SBCL later tonight. Ian Red Daly wrote: >

Re: [elephant-devel] trouble getting going (with open-store, ...)

2006-10-05 Thread Red Daly
Thank you for the quick and helpful response :). With your corrections, all tests passed and I seem to be able to open a functioning store! However, life is not perfect yet. The main problem I seem to be facing right now is when I attempt to load elephant using my slime environment (when calling

Re: [elephant-devel] trouble getting going (with open-store, ...)

2006-10-05 Thread Robert L. Read
Arggh!  I realized that write before I got this email.  I have now removed it; we should use the texinfo documentation as the master documentation. I'll fix it, thanks! On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 17:24 +0200, Kilian Sprotte wrote: Hi, why don't you just take off or correct the 

Re: [elephant-devel] trouble getting going (with open-store, ...)

2006-10-05 Thread Kilian Sprotte
Hi,why don't you just take off or correct the Example Usage part of the project homepage?Its probably just this line CL-USER> (open-store "/home/ben/testdb").People might be tempted to look there first then into the tutorial.Bye,  KilianAm 05.10.2006 um 17:13 schrieb Robert L. Read: On Thu, 2006-10

Re: [elephant-devel] trouble getting going (with open-store, ...)

2006-10-05 Thread Robert L. Read
On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 01:23 -0700, Red Daly wrote: however, I am unable to open a store according to the instructions in the two tutorials on the common-lisp.net project site. Here is an example attempt: * (open-store "store") Dear Team,     This syntax is (very) obsolete, as Ian has po

Re: [elephant-devel] trouble getting going (with open-store, ...)

2006-10-05 Thread Kilian Sprotte
Am 05.10.2006 um 16:21 schrieb Ian Eslick: Thanks for the help! The next two weeks are busy for me, and then I hope to get back to hacking properly on Elephant. Thats good, so I can prepare this slowly :) Basically, I have good news: With some minor inconveniences, I got sbcl running a

Re: [elephant-devel] trouble getting going (with open-store, ...)

2006-10-05 Thread Ian Eslick
There are some patches pending for CVS which should remove the makefile step. I'm open to suggestions on the right way to provide parameters to the build process for the C libraries and the load process for Lisp (where are the foreign BDB libs and local libs). We've tried to make reasonable defa

Re: [elephant-devel] trouble getting going (with open-store, ...)

2006-10-05 Thread Kilian Sprotte
Am 05.10.2006 um 15:01 schrieb Ian Eslick: Can you list the various problems you had trying to get the system to run? We're working on useability for the next release and want to fix as many of the inconveniences as possible. I can help with testing on OSX sbcl and openmcl. At first, I would

Re: [elephant-devel] trouble getting going (with open-store, ...)

2006-10-05 Thread Ian Eslick
I'm sorry if the website hasn't been updated (Robert, can you check this?), but the tutorial should be updated to reflect the new (as of 0.6.0) open-store protocol, which requires specification of the type of backend you'll be using. A specification is a list of two elements; a backend type specif

[elephant-devel] trouble getting going (with open-store, ...)

2006-10-05 Thread Red Daly
I have been trying to get Elephant up and running for a few days with little luck. I have tried CMUCL and SBCL, with different unsuccessful outcomes. During my latest attempt on SBCL, I seem to be able to call the following two lines without errors: (asdf:operate 'asdf:load-op :elephant) (asdf:op