Yeah, that’s a way more ambitious project. That’ll take at least a year to make any progress at all. Before I could even begin, I need to finish DBI and then build up something SQLAlchemy for Julia.
Thankfully, the 0.4 changes should put DataFrames in a good state that we can depend on for some time into the future. — John On Sep 6, 2014, at 11:15 PM, Iain Dunning <[email protected]> wrote: > I saw on some list/issue you were thinking of working on a more fresh > approach to the whole data storage situation - is that post 0.4? > > On Saturday, September 6, 2014 10:30:04 PM UTC-4, John Myles White wrote: > I am hoping that the 0.4 release of Julia will coincide with a major cleanup > of the Data* world. I wrote up a very high level overview of my goals here: > https://gist.github.com/johnmyleswhite/ad5305ecaa9de01e317e > > There’s still more work to do to flesh out these ideas, but the basic > principles are pretty close to finalized. There’s also a rough draft of much > of the core functionality we’ll need to add to support this roadmap. > > I wanted to give everyone a heads up so that people understand where the > Data* packages are headed. The big idea is that we’ll be pushing more work > out into the type system, which will give substantial performance > improvements. > > — John >
