[elephant-devel] Elephant 0.6.1 Alpha Release available

Sun Feb 18 21:14:46 UTC 2007

That's great news; a 64bit system is bound to be useful in the future.

I checked in the typo you noticed.

Ian and I will review streamlining the testing process/output as we work
on 
the documentation; it is clearly confusing.  

I think it worked if it didn't give you an error.

On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 21:19 +0100, Henrik Hjelte wrote:

> Great!
> Here are some results from sbcl/linux/amd64:
> 
> elephant.asd line 113 should be like this:
>    #+(and X86-64 linux) "-march=x86-64"
> 
> berkeley-db tests:
> All tests ok, the first time.
> If I run do-backend-tests again, prepares-bdb fails.
> However, if I run delscript.sh then all tests run ok again.
> 
> 
> sql tests:
> (I use postgresql 8.1)
> 
> 5 out of 115 total tests failed: FIXNUMS, WRITE-64-BIT-FIXNUM, BIGNUMS, 
>    RATIONALS, ARRAYS-2.
> 
> That is because of a typo that in the end causes the old serializer1 to
> be loaded.
> 
> The typo is [keyvlaue] should be [keyvalue], line 119 of
> sql-controller.lisp in the function create-version-table.
> 
> After fixing this, 
> everything runs ok.
> 
> Migration tests: 
> I tried:
> (do-migration-tests *testbdb-spec* *testbdb-spec2*)
> (do-migration-tests *testbdb-spec2* *testpg-spec*)
> Both work I guess, at least they don't show any errors.
> But they run awfully fast, and end with the output like this:
> Migrating
> Migrating class indexes for: IPFOO
> Copying the root:
> Fetching
> 
> MIGRATE-IPCLASS 
> MIGRATE-IPCLASS
> 
> Does this mean they run ok?
> 
> To summarize, it looks really good! Thanks a lot for this!
> 
> /Henrik Hjelte
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 12:10 -0500, Ian Eslick wrote:
> > An alpha release of Elephant 0.6.1 is now available for testing.
> > 
> > Supported platforms:
> > - SBCL, Allegro, CMU, OpenMCL, Lispworks (build system is not  
> > automated for Windows)
> > - CMU, OpenMCL and Lispworks have not been fully tested and may  
> > require minor bug fixes
> > 
> > 
> > DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL:
> > 
> > The alpha release will only be available via CVS
> > 
> > 	cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anonymous:anonymous at common-lisp.net:/project/ 
> > elephant/cvsroot checkout -r ELEPHANT-0-6-1-alpha elephant
> > 
> > This will put the elephant release into the directory: elephant.   
> > Read the INSTALL, UPGRADE and UPGRADE-BDB files for further  
> > instructions.
> > 
> > 
> > PURPOSE OF THE ALPHA RELEASE:
> > 
> > The primary developers do not have ready access to all supported  
> > platforms and would like to ask the community to help validate the  
> > current implementation on other platforms.  We also are using the  
> > alpha to improve up our test suite.  For more details please see the  
> > TODO file.  If you have a favorite feature such as multi-threading,  
> > 64-bit, etc., please free to submit a test for the test suite.
> > 
> > 
> > NEW FEATURES IN 0.6.1:
> > 
> > Simplified build and site configuration support
> > - See config.sexp in root directory for site customization (no more  
> > editing code files)
> > - Linux and Mac systems should automatically build libraries when  
> > asdf is called
> > 
> > 64-bit lisps are now supported
> > - 64-bit and 32-bit lisps can read and run off the same database  
> > files (on the same machine)
> > 
> > Multithreading:
> > - Elephant should now be thread safe, including sharing a single  
> > store-controller across threads
> > - Read comments in src/elephant/transactions.lisp and BDB users  
> > should read src/db-bdb/bdb-transactions.lisp
> > - Improved support for mixing transactions and store-controllers
> > 
> > Upgrading:
> > - Elephant 0.6.1 can open and directly manipulate 0.6.0 databases
> > - Existing 0.6.0 databases can be upgraded via the 'upgrade' function  
> > which takes
> > - Upgrading is required for 64-bit systems
> > - New serializer-independant metadata should enable future upgrades  
> > easier
> > - NOTE: There may be some problems upgrading SQL databases
> > 
> > Berkeley DB backend:
> > - BDB 4.5 required (see UPGRADE-BDB)
> > - *auto-commit* is no longer required.  All data access methods auto- 
> > commit if there is no active transaction.
> > - store-controller accepts :deadlock-detect keyword (t or nil) which  
> > will run db_deadlock as a background process to abort deadlocked threads
> > - optimize-storage is a new store-controller method currently  
> > supported by BDB backend.  It compacts a whole database or only a  
> > specific BTree and returns free pages to the free list or to the file  
> > system.
> > 
> > Minor features:
> > - Re-organization to the internal structure in this release:
> >    - Renaming including removing defunct sleepycat naming scheme,  
> > backend packages, etc.
> >    - The serializer was modularized to allow future releases to  
> > change serializer
> >      strategies or implement custom serializers and to be able to  
> > open legacy databases
> >    - Remove various warnings in SBCL build, etc.
> >    - Separated utilities into their own package and directory
> > - Serializer improvements
> >    - 0.6.1 databases can be shared across lisps running on hardware  
> > of the same endianness
> >      (i.e. all x86 platforms or PPC/Alpha, etc)
> >    - Simplified unicode serialization support across all platforms
> >    - Performance improvements in multi-threading situations
> > - Feature :elephant-without-optimize will disable optimization  
> > declarations simplifying debugging
> > - Other fixes and features documented in the TODO file
> > 
> > Thank you,
> > Ian Eslick and Robert Read
> > Elephant Developers
> > 
> > 
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