Re: Any update on Mckoi's status?

That's a good news. Glad to hear the project is alive.

Best wishes.

Thanks,
Alex

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tobias Downer" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 9:02 PM
Subject: Re: Any update on Mckoi's status?


> I'm still here.  I can understand your pessimism about the Mckoi
> project.  However, the project is not going to be in limbo for much
> longer and I'll be putting all doubts about the project being abandoned
> soon.  Just the past two months I've been straightening out the SQL
> parser, planner and optimizer in v2 and it's coming together nicely.  As
> soon as I have a build that is usable, it'll be up on the website.
>
> Version 2 is intended to return the project to the track it was
> originally envisioned to take, that of a strict transactional database
> codebase that is easy to understand and extend in any way a developer
> may want, not just limited to SQL.  To that end, I plan on adding a
> great deal more documentation about how Mckoi works and examples of what
> you can do with it to the website.  I think people who are interested in
> the workings of transactional databases will like this a lot and I'm
> hoping it will open the project up to a wider audience that are
> interested in more primitive data storage/query APIs but want the option
> of going to a full featured SQL system when needed.
>
> There's a lot of new stuff I can't wait to show off.  Don't be surprised
> if a lot of new stuff suddenly starts happening around here.
>
> Toby.
>
> Alexander Molochnikov wrote:
> > The silence is deafening...
> >
> > I mean the silence of Toby, the original developer. If he is no longer
> > watching this mailing list, this speaks for itself. If he is watching,
> > but keeps silent, then this is even more telling.
> >
> > Either way, I am growing more pessimistic by the hour.
> >
> > And no, I do not expect a group of other Java programmers to pick up a
> > project that seems to have been abandoned. If the original authors did
> > not have enough interest and/or confidence in the merits of the project,
> > the outsiders never will.
> >
> > Maybe it's just me.
> >
> > Alex Molochnikov
> >
>
>
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