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I'm not sure who owns Elephant right now, but I am about to complete<BR>
my postgres-backend extention. (I've got 7 tests out of 90 that are <BR>
still failing, but should have those knocked out soon.)<BR>
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It took me three weeks and I estimated two; but I'm confident now that<BR>
within two weeks I can have a complete, testable, well-documented<BR>
system that let's you seemlessly migrate data between Berkeley DB <BR>
and Postgres.<BR>
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So the real question is, should this be "fork" or elephant, with a new<BR>
project name, or should it just be an elephant release? (I assume that <BR>
the owner will of course want to code-review it before making that decision,<BR>
but I thought it better to keep everyone informed of what I'm doing.<BR>
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Recall that one nice thing about PostGres is that it's licensing terms <BR>
for someone building a public website are nicer than those of Berkeley DB.<BR>
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I didn't receive a response to this previous message:<BR>
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In addition to time, there are three reasons why I would not make a good owner:<BR>
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1) I use only SBCL and plan to use only SBCL for the foreseeable future.<BR>
2) I am not a super-great LISP coder.<BR>
3) I am modifying Elephant to use CL-SQL as a backend. I plan to "release and <BR>
own" this, in any case. However, fans of Sleepcat may not want to have the nice<BR>
simple code of Elephant cluttered up with my SQL-related code.<BR>
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Since I plan to own the CL-SQL based Elephant anyway, the real issue is<BR>
should that stuff be a fork from Elephant or part of Elephant?<BR>
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And, since I'm only half-way done, people might be really unhappy when the <BR>
code review it.<BR>
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Robert L. Read, PhD read &T robertlread.net<BR>
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