Calling all library maintainers

2010-11-04 Thread Eric Evans
Some of you might already be aware, but I recently proposed a query language as an alternative to (or full replacement for) the Thrift/Avro RPC interfaces. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.cassandra.devel/2370 For me, this isn't so much about making the raw Cassandra interface easier, as

Re: Calling all library maintainers

2010-11-04 Thread Eric Evans
On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 09:30 -0700, Dave Viner wrote: 1. How does replacing thrift/avro with a SQL-inspired query language make the server more stable? As a client, I still need to connect via something, and that something will make something like an RPC call to the server. In traditional

Re: Calling all library maintainers

2010-11-04 Thread Ran Tavory
A QL can shield clients from a class of changes, but OTOH will make clients have to compose the query strings, where with type safe libraries this job is somewhat easier. IMO in the near term introducing a query language will make client dev somewhat harder b/c of the (somewhat negligible) work of

Re: [VOTE] 0.6.7 RC1

2010-11-04 Thread Brandon Williams
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Jonathan Ellis jbel...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently Eric has become a fan of Android-style release names. Actually, I replaced HH with chocolate pudding cake. It's not any more useful, but it tastes better. -Brandon

Re: [VOTE] 0.6.7 RC1

2010-11-04 Thread Eric Evans
On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 13:41 -0500, Nate McCall wrote: Fyi: #1 looks like a pretty good chocolate brownie recipe. Is that Google's fault or a typo? (either way, thanks!). Ha! Awesome. I need to start doing that on purpose from time to time. FWIW, it should have been: http://goo.gl/pGEx5 On

Re: Calling all library maintainers

2010-11-04 Thread Eric Evans
On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 21:28 +0200, Ran Tavory wrote: A QL can shield clients from a class of changes, but OTOH will make clients have to compose the query strings, where with type safe libraries this job is somewhat easier. IMO in the near term introducing a query language will make client dev