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

[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,

   Kilian

Am 05.10.2006 um 17:13 schrieb 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 pointed out.  I  
> don't think this example occurs in
> the current tutorials for elephant itself (here: http://common- 
> lisp.net/project/elephant/doc/), but
> does occur in the "with-araneida" tutorial: http://common-lisp.net/ 
> project/elephant/with-araneida/
> That tutorial is about two years out of date; I think it is still  
> valuable for showing an example
> use of Elephant for a small but meaningful application.  It is not  
> really within my power in the
> short term to repair it (although Ian and I have discussed creating  
> a contemporary version of
> something similar, and we would welcome a good "example app" from  
> this list.)
>     However, it is terrible that it leaves unmarked examples that  
> are out of date and wasted
> your time.  I'm sorry about that and will go clearly indicate the  
> obsolete nature of that tutorial.
> (If you find a bad example in the elephant tutorial, please inform  
> me --- I ran all of those examples
> by hand before the 0.6.0 release, but I have an extraordinary  
> ability to step in a bucket.)
>
>
>> debugger invoked on a SIMPLE-ERROR in thread
>> #<THREAD "initial thread" {A7B93E1}>:
>>   The assertion (CONSP ELEPHANT::SPEC) failed.
>>
>> Type HELP for debugger help, or (SB-EXT:QUIT) to exit from SBCL.
>>
>> restarts (invokable by number or by possibly-abbreviated name):
>>   0: [CONTINUE] Retry assertion.
>>   1: [ABORT   ] Exit debugger, returning to top level.
>>
>> (SB-KERNEL:ASSERT-ERROR (CONSP ELEPHANT::SPEC) NIL NIL)
>> 0] backtrace
>>
>> 0: (SB-KERNEL:ASSERT-ERROR (CONSP ELEPHANT::SPEC) NIL NIL)
>> 1: (OPEN-STORE "store" :RECOVER NIL :RECOVER-FATAL NIL :THREAD T)
>> 2: (SB-INT:EVAL-IN-LEXENV (OPEN-STORE "store") #<NULL-LEXENV>)
>> 3: (SB-EXT:INTERACTIVE-EVAL (OPEN-STORE "store"))
>> 4: (SB-IMPL::REPL-FUN NIL)
>> 5: ((LAMBDA ()))
>> 6: ((LAMBDA ()))
>> 7: (SB-IMPL::%WITH-REBOUND-IO-SYNTAX #<CLOSURE (LAMBDA #) {A7F28FD}>)
>> 8: (SB-IMPL::TOPLEVEL-REPL NIL)
>> 9: (SB-IMPL::TOPLEVEL-INIT)
>> 10: ((LABELS SB-IMPL::RESTART-LISP))
>>
>>
>> I would appreciate any help in getting elephant up and running.  I am
>> running SBCL 0.9.8, ubuntu dapper, and bdb 4.3 (apt-installable
>> version).  I will gladly supply more information to help determine  
>> the
>> error of my ways.  I can't wait to try out elephant!
>>
>> Thanks sincerely,
>> red daly
>>
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