[Metakit] libtool has been removed

2004-03-07 Thread Jean-Claude Wippler
I've removed libtool from the Metakit build setup and checked in changes to CVS. The changes are very preliminary - this build is likely to work on less platforms than before. Use the 2.4.9.3 distribution if you are not prepared to deal with this. I'll be adjusting this further in the coming

[Metakit] Storing views derived from multiple storages

2004-03-07 Thread gary . h . merrill
I am now attempting to make better use of Metakit's capabilities and in doing so realized that I have really confused myself. At one point I take a set of views and union them. But each view is from a different storage! Apparently Metakit doesn't care about this, and that makes sense. But to

[Metakit] Re: Storing views derived from multiple storages

2004-03-07 Thread gary . h . merrill
Better? combinedView = ... result of operations on views from multiple storages ... newStorage = storage(filename, mode) newView = newStorage.getas( ... appropriate description...) newView.union(combinedView) newStorage.commit() --

[Metakit] Product of views with same description

2004-03-07 Thread gary.h.merrill
I am trying to optimize some of my search strategies and one way to do this involves creating a product of two or more views that have the same description. In this case, view.product() just creates the union. Not surprising. It's not actually a product, but what's it supposed to do? :-) The