> > But ground stone is just sand. There’s more than just sand in soil. Soil > should have the other ingredients needed for growth. :)
I was trying to make a reference to a GemStone *stone *:) Dale On Wed, May 8, 2024 at 1:27 PM Norbert Hartl <norb...@hartl.name> wrote: > > > Am 08.05.2024 um 16:14 schrieb Norbert Hartl <norb...@hartl.name>: > > > > Am 06.05.2024 um 16:47 schrieb Dirk Nel <dirkockert...@gmail.com>: > > I'll definitely check it out..! and for those who are not in the know... > what inspired the name? :) > > > - I like the word > - It has only four letters which qualifies as a class prefix > - To me as a non-native speaker it means: ground layer you can build/grow > on > > - people having fun with it > > Mission accomplished > > N. > > > Norbert > > > On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 at 17:47, Tim Mackinnon <tim@testit.works> wrote: > >> That's really exciting news... appreciate you sharing it with the wider >> community (I know when you mentioned its existence a while back I went and >> watched the Esug recordings to get more info, and looked at some of the >> extensive test cases to get a feel on what it looked like - its neat). >> >> Having multiple options for persisting data (from simple Fuel up to Soil >> and Glorp and Gemstone) is very useful. >> >> Tim >> >> On Wed, 24 Apr 2024, at 12:52 PM, Norbert Hartl wrote: >> >> ...we said at last ESUG that there will be a release soonish but as usual >> it doesn't go that fast. >> >> But now we are very happy to announce that Soil has a first public >> release v1. So what is soil? >> >> Soil is an object oriented database in pharo <http://pharo.org/>. It is >> transaction based having ACID transactions. It has binary search >> capabilities with SkipList and BTree+ indexes. It aims to be a simple yet >> powerful database making it easy to develop with, easy to debug with, easy >> to inspect, ... >> >> More details at https://github.com/ApptiveGrid/Soil >> >> This release is still considered early stage because >> >> >> - although in ApptiveGrid there are over 4000 instances of it and >> there are other users there isn't a wider range of use cases, yet. So it >> is >> not fully battle tested. This just as reminder when you start compaining I >> need somewhere to point my finger to and say "I told you!" ;) >> - there are few things missing that you might expect like garbage >> collection, etc. >> >> >> So but it is definetely usable and awaiting the brave ones of you to try. >> >> Hopy you enjoy it! >> >> Norbert & Marcus >> _______________________________________________ >> Esug-list mailing list -- esug-l...@lists.esug.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to esug-list-le...@lists.esug.org >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Esug-list mailing list -- esug-l...@lists.esug.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to esug-list-le...@lists.esug.org >> > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list -- esug-l...@lists.esug.org > To unsubscribe send an email to esug-list-le...@lists.esug.org > > _______________________________________________ > Esug-list mailing list -- esug-l...@lists.esug.org > To unsubscribe send an email to esug-list-le...@lists.esug.org >
