[elephant-devel] Third attempt to send message (attachments removed)

[Robert L. Read]

Yes, the Berkeley DB back-end works completely with the new code;  I
intend to keep it 
working as well, just not to actively develop for it.

Thanks for the offer of hosting; I have my own site and will put the
stuff there 
at least to make it available to th people on this list.



On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 08:48 -0400, Dan Knapp wrote:

>   Well, I'm still using Elephant.  I'm happy to see your port,
> although I have not run up against the licensing issues with
> Sleepycat, so I don't really need it.
> 
> 
>   I really wish I could volunteer my own time to keep Elephant
> alive... it's an excellent project but it can't last without a
> maintainer.  Somebody ought to put out a call for maintainership on
> Planet Lisp, comp.lang.lisp, etc.  There may be people with the time
> to spare who aren't on this mailing list...
> 
> 
>   In answer to your question, I think this should be the next version
> of Elephant, in that otherwise it looks like things are going to end
> up unmaintained anyway.  Have I understood correctly, that the
> Sleepycat backend still works with this version, although you can't
> guarantee it won't break in future?  Not that my answer changes if
> not, but if that's the case I see it as a no-brainer.
> 
> 
>   Elephant isn't truly what I would call a large project, so hopefully
> you will find maintaining it easier than you expect.  It's just a
> little hard to get oriented in somebody else's code, isn't it?  You'll
> get the hang of it though.
> 
> 
>   Do you need web space to let people get your patch?  I can host it
> for you.
> 
> 
> 
> -- Dan Knapp
> 
> 
> 
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