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[elephant-cvs] CVS update: elephant/NEWS
by blee＠common-lisp.net 30 Aug '04

30 Aug '04

Update of /project/elephant/cvsroot/elephant In directory common-lisp.net:/tmp/cvs-serv5658 Modified Files: NEWS Log Message: versions Date: Tue Aug 31 01:53:32 2004 Author: blee Index: elephant/NEWS diff -u elephant/NEWS:1.2 elephant/NEWS:1.3 --- elephant/NEWS:1.2 Tue Aug 31 01:46:12 2004 +++ elephant/NEWS Tue Aug 31 01:53:32 2004 @@ -4,10 +4,13 @@ Elephant 0.1 was released August 30th, 2004. This is an ALPHA quality release, so claims about correctness, performance and safety should be taken with a grain of salt. -This release has been tested on CMUCL, SBCL and Allegro on -x86 Linux and FreeBSD. OpenMCL and Lispworks versions will -come soon. As a proof of concept I've compiled and run <a -href="http:://www.common-lisp.net/project/cl-irc">CL-IRC</a> +This release has been tested on CMUCL 19a, SBCL 0.8.13 and +Allegro 6.2 on x86 Linux and FreeBSD. OpenMCL and Lispworks +versions will come soon. As a proof of concept I've +compiled and run CL-IRC + +http:://www.common-lisp.net/project/cl-irc + making all objects and slots persistent, except for the socket-streams. It runs, and saves everything except for the socket-streams.

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[elephant-cvs] CVS update: elephant/README elephant/NEWS elephant/INSTALL elephant/CREDITS
by blee＠common-lisp.net 30 Aug '04

30 Aug '04

Update of /project/elephant/cvsroot/elephant In directory common-lisp.net:/tmp/cvs-serv5417 Modified Files: README NEWS INSTALL CREDITS Log Message: edits Date: Tue Aug 31 01:46:12 2004 Author: blee Index: elephant/README diff -u elephant/README:1.2 elephant/README:1.3 --- elephant/README:1.2 Tue Aug 31 00:05:58 2004 +++ elephant/README Tue Aug 31 01:46:12 2004 @@ -8,17 +8,18 @@ Elephant is an object database for Common Lisp. It supports storing CLOS objects and most lisp primitives, and access to -BTrees. It uses Sleepycat / Berkeley DB (via UFFI) as it's -underlying store, which is server-less, ACID compliant, -transactional, process and thread safe, and fast relative to -relational databases; hopefully Elephant inherits these -properties. +BTrees. It uses Sleepycat / Berkeley DB, a +widely-distributed embedded database; many unix systems have +it installed by default. Sleepycat is server-less, ACID +compliant, transactional, process and thread safe, and fast +relative to relational databases; hopefully Elephant +inherits these properties. Goals: -* Transparency: arbitrary CLOS objects are easy to persist -without much effort or special syntax. Talk to the DB with -Lisp code, not SQL or another domain-specific language. No +* Transparency: most Lisp values are easy to persist without +much effort or special syntax. Talk to the DB with Lisp +code, not SQL or another domain-specific language. No additional server to run. * Safety: ACID, transactions. Concurrent with good @@ -29,10 +30,16 @@ programmer. Lisp and Berkeley DB together are an excellent substrate, try to use their features as much as possible. -* Performance: in addition to concurrent / transactional +* Performance: leverage Sleepycat performance and +reliability. In addition to fast concurrent / transactional modes, elephant will (eventually) offer an accellerated single-user mode. +Join the Elephant mailing lists to ask your questions and +receive updates. They're on the Elephant website + +http://www.common-lisp.net/project/elephant + ------------------ License + Warrenty ------------------ @@ -55,4 +62,10 @@ Authors ------- -See CREDITS. \ No newline at end of file +See CREDITS. + +---- +News +---- + +See NEWS and ChangeLog. \ No newline at end of file Index: elephant/NEWS diff -u elephant/NEWS:1.1 elephant/NEWS:1.2 --- elephant/NEWS:1.1 Tue Aug 31 00:05:48 2004 +++ elephant/NEWS Tue Aug 31 01:46:12 2004 @@ -1,9 +1,13 @@ -August 30, 2004 - Alpha version 0.1 is released. Elephant -works on CMUCL, SBCL, and Allegro on Linux and FreeBSD. As -a proof of concept I've compiled and run CL-IRC +August 30, 2004 - -http:://www.common-lisp.net/project/cl-irc - -making all the objects persistent. It runs, and saves -everything except for the socket-streams. +Elephant 0.1 was released August 30th, 2004. This is an +ALPHA quality release, so claims about correctness, +performance and safety should be taken with a grain of salt. +This release has been tested on CMUCL, SBCL and Allegro on +x86 Linux and FreeBSD. OpenMCL and Lispworks versions will +come soon. As a proof of concept I've compiled and run <a +href="http:://www.common-lisp.net/project/cl-irc">CL-IRC</a> +making all objects and slots persistent, except for the +socket-streams. It runs, and saves everything except for +the socket-streams. Index: elephant/INSTALL diff -u elephant/INSTALL:1.4 elephant/INSTALL:1.5 --- elephant/INSTALL:1.4 Sun Aug 29 22:31:26 2004 +++ elephant/INSTALL Tue Aug 31 01:46:12 2004 @@ -37,11 +37,12 @@ with the provided file. -2) Install Berkeley DB 4.2. FreeBSD has a port for this, as -I'm sure other BSDs (including Darwin.) Take note of where -libdb.so and db.h are installed (usually -/usr/local/BerekleyDB.4.2/lib/libdb.so and -/usr/local/BerekleyDB.4.2/include/db.h, or +2) Install Berkeley DB 4.2. You may actually already have +this installed. The version number is important. FreeBSD +has a port for this, as I'm sure do other BSDs (including +Darwin/Fink.) Take note of where libdb.so and db.h are +installed (usually /usr/local/BerekleyDB.4.2/lib/libdb.so +and /usr/local/BerekleyDB.4.2/include/db.h, or /usr/local/lib/db42/libdb.so and /usr/local/include/db42/db.h.) Index: elephant/CREDITS diff -u elephant/CREDITS:1.1 elephant/CREDITS:1.2 --- elephant/CREDITS:1.1 Tue Aug 31 00:05:32 2004 +++ elephant/CREDITS Tue Aug 31 01:46:12 2004 @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Thanks to: -Sleepycat / Margo Selzter for Berkeley DB +Sleepycat for Berkeley DB Kevin Rosenberg for UFFI, answering lots of questions and letting me patch @@ -15,7 +15,9 @@ Rafal Strzalinski for the Makefile and package patch -The CMUCL and SBCL people for a great compiler +The common-lisp.net people for hosting + +The CMUCL and SBCL people for great compilers SLIME for a better environment

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[elephant-cvs] CVS update: elephant/README
by blee＠common-lisp.net 30 Aug '04

30 Aug '04

Update of /project/elephant/cvsroot/elephant In directory common-lisp.net:/tmp/cvs-serv12906 Modified Files: README Log Message: reorg Date: Tue Aug 31 00:05:59 2004 Author: blee Index: elephant/README diff -u elephant/README:1.1 elephant/README:1.2 --- elephant/README:1.1 Fri Aug 27 19:30:34 2004 +++ elephant/README Tue Aug 31 00:05:58 2004 @@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ License + Warrenty ------------------ -Elephant is licensed under the GPL without any warrenty. See LICENSE. ---------------------- @@ -47,32 +46,13 @@ See INSTALL and TUTORIAL. ------ -Status +Design ------ -An alpha release is planned by the end of August 2004. If -you're desparate to use it / help, contact me (blee (at) -thisdomain) for sources. Since Elephant is alpha, claims -about correctness, performance and safety should be taken -with a grain of salt. Eventually it will be portable but is -developed on CMUCL, and tested on Allegro; we're also -targeting OpenMCL, SBCL and Lispworks. +See NOTES. -We are only part-time hackers and would appreciate any -support we can get, in feedback, testing, and development -help. - -Design: - -* Metaclasses declare CLOS persistence. Store controller -object provides interface to underlying DB. - -* One big BTree. Automatically serialize / deserialize -values. Persistent objects stored by OID. - -* Access to BTrees via hash-table-like Lisp objects. - -* Liveness determined by reachability from a root Btree. - -* Delegate as much as possible to Berkeley DB. +------- +Authors +------- +See CREDITS. \ No newline at end of file

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[elephant-cvs] CVS update: elephant/NEWS
by blee＠common-lisp.net 30 Aug '04

30 Aug '04

Update of /project/elephant/cvsroot/elephant In directory common-lisp.net:/tmp/cvs-serv12829 Added Files: NEWS Log Message: initial version Date: Tue Aug 31 00:05:48 2004 Author: blee

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[elephant-cvs] CVS update: elephant/ChangeLog
by blee＠common-lisp.net 30 Aug '04

30 Aug '04

Update of /project/elephant/cvsroot/elephant In directory common-lisp.net:/tmp/cvs-serv12645 Added Files: ChangeLog Log Message: initial version Date: Tue Aug 31 00:05:41 2004 Author: blee

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[elephant-cvs] CVS update: elephant/CREDITS
by blee＠common-lisp.net 30 Aug '04

30 Aug '04

Update of /project/elephant/cvsroot/elephant In directory common-lisp.net:/tmp/cvs-serv12366 Added Files: CREDITS Log Message: initial version Date: Tue Aug 31 00:05:32 2004 Author: blee

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[elephant-cvs] CVS update: elephant/TODO
by blee＠common-lisp.net 30 Aug '04

30 Aug '04

Update of /project/elephant/cvsroot/elephant In directory common-lisp.net:/tmp/cvs-serv7183 Added Files: TODO Log Message: initial version Date: Mon Aug 30 23:41:34 2004 Author: blee

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[elephant-cvs] CVS update: elephant/tests/testsleepycat.lisp
by blee＠common-lisp.net 30 Aug '04

30 Aug '04

Update of /project/elephant/cvsroot/elephant/tests In directory common-lisp.net:/tmp/cvs-serv7156/tests Added Files: testsleepycat.lisp Log Message: initial version Date: Mon Aug 30 23:40:38 2004 Author: blee

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[elephant-cvs] CVS update: elephant/tests/testserializer.lisp
by blee＠common-lisp.net 30 Aug '04

30 Aug '04

Update of /project/elephant/cvsroot/elephant/tests In directory common-lisp.net:/tmp/cvs-serv7111/tests Added Files: testserializer.lisp Log Message: initial version Date: Mon Aug 30 23:39:59 2004 Author: blee

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[elephant-cvs] CVS update: elephant/tests/mop-tests.lisp
by blee＠common-lisp.net 30 Aug '04

30 Aug '04

Update of /project/elephant/cvsroot/elephant/tests In directory common-lisp.net:/tmp/cvs-serv7086/tests Added Files: mop-tests.lisp Log Message: initial version Date: Mon Aug 30 23:39:09 2004 Author: blee

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