I like Metakit so much, but can't use it directly with my Java
software, that I've decided to begin writing a version in Java. I've
got a reasonable amount of progress so far in being able to open and
read a Metakit database. My initial goal is to be able to fully
support read-only access
My plan was to, as you say, literally re-implement Metakit in Java. I'm not interested in a solution that is not in pure Java.
As to your qualms.
1) I agree that keeping the features in step with Metakit would require a significant effort. On the other hand, at the moment I am not using nearly
Just a couple of comments that you can take
for whatever they are worth, and not intended to start a best language
war:
I can well imagine that relatively direct
Java access to Metakit databases would be welcomed by a significant number
of Java developers. I encourage this effort. There is more
Hi Gary,
I appreciate your comments and have no interest in a best language war as well. There are certainly many others that are quite interested in that and we can leave it to them.
I guess my bottom line is that for me Java works very well. I do write compute intensive applications, often
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[... to java or not to java ...]
I respect your concerns.
I can well imagine that relatively direct Java access to Metakit
databases would be welcomed by a significant number of Java
developers. I encourage this effort.
Me too. And if there is someone out there who
Brian Kelley wrote:
And jcw, could I see the python only reader please, please :)
Yeah, I was afraid you'd ask. Took me ages to find it on an old CD
backup, even though I'm pretty well organized w.r.t. my backups these
days (it's hard to find things by location when you don't know
*where*
