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

[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 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 That tutorial is about two years out of date; I think it is still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 are out of date and wasted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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