September 2004 - elephant-announce@lists.common-lisp.net

[elephant-announce] Elephant Tutorial
by Ben 27 Sep '04

27 Sep '04

Hi folks, I've put a tutorial on the homepage on how to use Elephant with Araneida to make a simple Blog. http://www.common-lisp.net/project/elephant/with-araneida Hopefully this will be helpful. In bad news I found some silly typos in the release I cut, it shouldn't affect most people but I've updated the tarball. Please refresh. Take care, B

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[elephant-announce] Elephant 0.2
by Ben 19 Sep '04

19 Sep '04

Elephant 0.2 was released on September 19th, 2004. This is an BETA release. New features: * Secondary indices and cursors * PPC Darwin OpenMCL / SBCL * Doc strings and improved documentation * An RT-based test suite * many bugfixes This release has been tested on CMUCL 19a, SBCL 0.8.14 and Allegro 6.2 on x86 Linux and FreeBSD, and OpenMCL 0.14.2-p1 and SBCL 0.8.14 on PPC Darwin. Tarballs (and now HTML docs) can be found on the website: http://www.common-lisp.net/project/elephant This release should be a lot more stable than the last. Enjoy! Ben and Andrew PS Nicholas, this release has a map-btree function, in addition to more general cursors.

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[elephant-announce] bugfixes
by Ben 04 Sep '04

04 Sep '04

The bad news is: there was a show-stopper bug in the alpha, having to do with OID generation and transaction locks. (I guess that's why they call it "alpha" -- drat.) The good news is: I've fixed it and a ton of other bugs, and added support for OpenMCL! (Thanks to Rafal Strzalinski for finding and fixing one.) The bad news is: there are still some issues with MOP. Mainly, initforms are being evaluated at class definition time. The good news is: those fixes will come soon too -- we're redesigning the slot allocation stuff, and we have to do some CMUCL-wrangling, probably. In the meantime I've repackaged the 0.1 tarball with the fixes I've done. I've also started making a bunch of regression tests (which require the RT asdf package.) I'll make a more formal announcement (and bump the version number) once I finish writing the regression tests, testing OpenMCL et al and produce more docs. The impatient are welcome to try out the tarball of course. The MOP fixes might take some more time, but will happen soon. Thanks for your interest, B

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