[elephant-devel] Release 0.6.0 pending

[Robert L. Read]

Thanks very much, Ian.

Ian has put a lot of work into this release (both in absolute terms and
relative
the little that I have done.)  We should be really appreciative of his
work.
The automatic class indexing he wrote makes Elephant even more
convenient.

I have added to the new "contrib" directory an asdf package called "dcm"
for 
Data Collection Management.  It is not threadsafe, and it is only
internally documented.
However, the code is pretty clear.  It implements the "director" or
"factory" pattern,
and includes a "generational" director that allow objects to be retired
to a slower
director.  It generally implements an in-memory database that allows you
to explicity
store things into Elephant.


On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 18:40 -0400, Ian Eslick wrote:

> I believe the current TRUNK now contains a viable 0.6.0 release.
> 
> This distribution has been tested under both SBCL and Allegro for both
> BDB and SQLite backends on Mac OS X.  I would like to see additional
> verification from others on this list before committing to a release. 
> Particularly look at the following:
> 
> Migration:
> 
> I have manually tested a database created under the 0.5.0 release;
> opened and manipulated it in the 0.6.0 release as well as performed a:
> (migrate new-v6-db old-v5-db) to validate the upgrade path to the 0.6.0
> release.
> 
> Allegro, Strings and DB versions:
> 
> If anyone is using the 0.6.0-rc1 with the fast allegro strings, those
> databases will not open up under the new 0.6.0.  There is a simple patch
> that I can make available to fix this (3 lines of code) but I did this
> to maintain 0.5.0 compatibility.
> 
> There wasn't a clean way to support both without creating some
> unbelievable headaches (I reverted after trying to make a solution work
> for a day).  Please let me know if you are an allegro or sbcl user that
> has a database build under 0.6.0-rc1 that they want to use with the
> final 0.6.0 release.
> 
> Documentation & Tutorials:
> 
> If anyone here is a frequent user of Elephant, particularly the new
> 0.6.0 codebase, please review the documentation files for accuracy and
> clarity.  If we can fix any obvious snafus now that would be grand.
> 
> I'll let Robert weigh in on any other issues after he plays with the
> release a bit.  With luck we'll release this week or early next week!
> 
> Cheers,
> Ian
>  
> 
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