I know. I was implying that Soil might be more than just bits of that stone. By being soil, it can be a fertile ground for ideas.
On Wed, May 8, 2024 at 5:41 PM Dale Henrichs < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> Am 08.05.2024 um 16:14 schrieb Norbert Hartl <[email protected]>: >> >> >> >> Am 06.05.2024 um 16:47 schrieb Dirk Nel <[email protected]>: >> >> 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 <[email protected]> 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 -- [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Esug-list mailing list -- [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Esug-list mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Esug-list mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> >
