[elephant-devel] Testing

[Ian Eslick]

Thanks to everyone who is doing testing.  We'll take the feedback  
from these runs and clean things up a bit before asking for another  
round of testing.  I think we'll accelerate the 0.6.1 release so  
there is a definite target to test for.  The remaining features:

Serializer efficiency improvement (SQL & BDB)
Native 64-bit support
Simplify multi-threading and multi-store operations
Ensure migration works between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1

I'm hoping to be ready with an alpha by the first week of february.   
Anyone who wants to help with testing in the meantime just keep an  
eye on the list, I'll announce features as they appear ready for a  
broader testing.  Anyone who wants to help with a feature, just let  
me know so we can coordinate our efforts.

For the serializer, I think that Robert and I are most of the way  
there.  Code reviews and comments are fine, but hold off until next  
week.

Ian

On Jan 23, 2007, at 7:48 PM, franks-muc at web.de wrote:

>
> I tried the new elephant on winXP.
>
> 1. Allegro8 trial:
>
> Error: In :IMPORT list, the symbol "ARRAY-TYPE-FROM-BYTE" not found  
> in package #<The ELEPHANT package>
> [condition type: PACKAGE-ERROR]
>
> when loading
> c:\lisp\binaries\allegro-a8.0-mswindows-x86\lisp\libraries\elephant 
> \src\elephant\serializer1.fasl
>
> 2. LispWorks 5 pro
>
> in file memutil.lisp
>
> This creates an error:
>
> (def-foreign-type array-or-pointer-char
>       #+allegro (:array :char)
>       #+(or cmu sbcl scl openmcl) (* :char))
>
> changed 2nd line to:
>       #+(or allegro lispworks) (:array :char)
> don't know whether it is the correct selection
>
> Then:
>
> Compilation aborted due to error between functions:
>   Package SB-KERNEL not found.
>
> when compiling this:
> ;; A non-back-compatible change was made in SBCL 8 moving to SBCL 9,
> ;; in that the function copy-from-system-area disappeared.
> ;; This code is an attempt to allow compilation under bothe SBCL 8  
> and SBCL 9.
> ;; Thanks to Juho Snellman for this idiom.
> (eval-when (:compile-toplevel)
>   (defun new-style-copy-p ()
>     (if (find-symbol "COPY-UB8-FROM-SYSTEM-AREA" "SB-KERNEL")
> 	'(:and)
> 	'(:or)))
>   )
>
> I then commented out all forms depending on
> ;#+#.(elephant-memutil::new-style-copy-p) and
> ;#-#.(elephant-memutil::new-style-copy-p)
>
> in file package lisp
>
> Compilation aborted due to error between functions:
>   Duplicated names in "ELEPHANT" defpackage: "ELE".
>
> I replaced
>  (:nicknames ele :ele)
> with
>  (:nicknames :ele)
>
> In file metaclasses.lisp
>
> **++++ Error in (DEFCLASS ELEPHANT:PERSISTENT):
>   Defining function :DBCN-SPC-PST visible from package KEYWORD.
>
> The accessor function stars with colon. I deleted the colon.
>
> In file classes.lisp
>
> Error
> Defining (METHOD ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS :AROUND ((EQL NIL) T))  
> visible from packages COMMON-LISP, CLOS.
>
> No idea what to do.
>
>
> 3. I was able to use elephant 6.0 with ACL 7 trial
>
> wherein I used cygwin to produce the dll s, and I copied the dll,  
> with a newer date than the source, into the
> directory with binaries to prevent recompilation started with run- 
> shell-command from asdf, which does not seem
> to work on windows.
>
> This is the script for libmemutil.dll:
>
> gcc -mno-cygwin -mwindows -std=c99 -c libmemutil.c
> dlltool -z libmeutil.def --export-all-symbols -e exports.o -l  
> libmemutil.lib libmemutil.o
> gcc -shared -mno-cygwin -mwindows libmemutil.o exports.o -o  
> libmemutil.dll
>
> And this is the script for libsleepycat.dll:
>
> gcc -mno-cygwin -mwindows -c -Wall -std=c99 -L/c/DB/Berkeley\ DB\  
> 4.4.20/lib/ -I/c/DB/Berkeley\ DB\ 4.4.20/include/ libsleepycat.c
> dlltool -z libsleepycat.def --export-all-symbols -e exports.o -l  
> libsleepycat.lib libsleepycat.o
> gcc -shared -mno-cygwin -mwindows -L/c/DB/Berkeley\ DB\ 4.4.20/bin/  
> -llibdb44 libsleepycat.o exports.o -o libsleepycat.dll
>
> (I don't know how to use variables in shell scripts)
>
>
> 4. I will try again
>
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