[rucksack-devel] state of the onion

[Rudi Engelbrecht]

Hi

I am using Rucksack in an environment to help me construct quick
prototypes in Lisp.

I am initialising the database everytime I start up the environment
at this stage. At the moment I create and manipulate about 50
domain objects during the startup (not plenty - I know).

I was pleasantly surprised to have it downloaded and installed in
less than 10 minutes in my LispWorks environment.

So far - based on the minimal effort to get it going, the nice tutorial
and the transparent approach to persistence it is a cheap way
(in terms of development and setup) to add persistence.

If your needs outgrow the solution, then you can always invest
the time later to switch to something else.

Rucksack's approach and seamless persistence reminds me
a lot of GemStone Smalltalk.

Kind regards

Rudi

On 27 May 2008, at 8:57 PM, Arthur Lemmens wrote:

> Tiarnan O'Corrain wrote:
>
>> what is the current status of rucksack?  Is it considered to be  
>> stable
>> and usable for (somewhat) important applications, or is it still in
>> 'alpha' mode?
>
> I'd say it's somewhere between alpha and stable ;-)
>
> Apart from the problem reported by Tayssir last week (see the mailing
> list archives), I'm not aware of any open bugs.  Of course there's  
> lots
> of room for improvement, but I guess there always will be.
>
> That said, I've only used Rucksack in situations where I could  
> recreate
> the data from external sources when necessary and I still haven't used
> Rucksack for applications where data is critical.  Nor have I heard  
> from
> other people who have used Rucksack for such apps.  So if you're  
> planning
> to use Rucksack that way, I think it would be wise to tread  
> carefully and
> make frequent back ups.
>
> Arthur
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