[elephant-devel] New maintainer and new branch

[Ben Lee]

Hi,

I wanted to thank Robert for his work and his taking over Elephant. 
Andrew and I will try to be around to help out when we can, too.  Also, 
probably since Elephant is no longer dependent on Sleepycat we might 
want to rethink the license.  Are there people who are interested in a 
new license for Elephant?

Ben

Robert L. Read wrote:
> I am now the new maintainer of the Elephant project. 
> 
> I don't know much about the history of what has been going on, so please
> be patient with me and give me as much information as you can.
> 
> I have recently written a significant extension the original Elephant 
> project.
> This allows one to use CL-SQL, and in particular PostGres, as a backend.
> However, the BerkeleyDB system still works and in fact functions are
> provided to migrate data between multiple co-existing repositories, whether
> implemented with PostGres or BerkeleyDB.
> 
> The PostGres system is presently much slower.  However, some people
> may prefer it to the BerkeleyDB system due to the BerkeleyDB license,
> which does not allow you to build a public website unless your system is
> all open-source.
> 
> The extention is checked into a branch of CVS called "SQL-BACK-END".
> 
> The easiest way to get it, and the extention of the documentation that
> I wrote, is to do an anonymous CVS checkout of the revision "SQL-BACK-END":
> 
> cvs -z3 -d 
> :pserver:anonymous:anonymous at common-lisp.net:/project/elephant/cvsroot 
> co -r SQL-BACK-END elephant
> 
> By doing a "make" in the docs directory, you can construct the HTML 
> based documentation
> that includes a new chapter on this extension.  Or you can read it on the
> common-lisp Elephant site:
> http://common-lisp.net/project/elephant/doc/SQL-back_002dend.html#SQL-back_002dend
> 
> The file "src/RUNTEST.lisp" shows how to load and run the 
> implementation-specific tests,
> as well as the migration tests.
> 
> I don't know how many people are using elephant, or what your desires 
> may be.
> My basic plan is to wait until mid-November and if nobody has complained 
> enough,
> to make the SQL-BACK-END version the main version to be released as 
> Elephant 0.3,
> at which point a tar file will be available.
> 
> I am not an expert on BerkeleyDB but intend to maintain complete back 
> compatibility
> with it.  This issue is discussed in the new documentation.
> 
> I intend to actively use this system.  I may not be actively developing 
> it, but here is
> my wish list:
> 
> 1)  SQLite compatibility (estimate: 3 days?)
> 2)  Much more efficient encoding (estimate: 5 days?)
> 
> Please let me hear from you if you have any interest in this; I am 
> strongly motivated
> to maintain software that people are using.
> 
> 
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