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Andrew Blumberg is very kindly and patiently working on some subtle <BR>
bugs in the latest version when run on OpenMCL.<BR>
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His work led me to understand that the test suite, which I consider to <BR>
be critical to the success of a project of this size, although fundamentally<BR>
very useful is a bit confusing to use when you try to use it in a BerkeleyD-only<BR>
or a SQL-only installation.<BR>
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I have therefore just checked in three files that I hope clarify matters:<BR>
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BerkeleyDB-tests.lisp --- an example of running the tests in a BerkeleyDB-only installation<BR>
SQLDB-test.lisp --- an example of running the tests in a SQL (e.g. Postgres or SQLite3)-only<BR>
installation. <BR>
MigrationTests.lisp --- invocation of the "migration" tests, which test moving data from<BR>
one back-end to another. Since one can use any combination nation or repositories ---<BR>
including BDB -> BDB, this necessarily requires the user to configure for their own <BR>
installation.<BR>
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I will document all those on the project website and in the Installation notes.<BR>
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I would particularly like to thank Andrew Blumberg and Waldo Rubinstein for their<BR>
work getting OpenMCL working; a subtle, MOP-ish difference is breaking things there.<BR>
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Personally, I think the momentum of this project is building; we are seeing a lot of <BR>
problems (relatively speaking) reported because we are expanding the usage of the <BR>
system. I hope I'm not just fooling myself.<BR>
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I was recently asked how many people use Elephant --- I really have no idea.<BR>
If you read this and are using Elephant, or tried and abandoned it for some reason,<BR>
please send me an email at "read at robertlread.net" or even to this list.<BR>
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I would really like to know if the number of users is closer to 10 or 100; if I <BR>
had to guess I would say 15 today.<BR>
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