RE: Any update on Mckoi's status?
"Tena Sakai" <[email protected]> Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:02:25 -0800
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------_=_NextPart_001_01C862FD.895FF2B5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Toby, Thanks for your breaking silence. I am pleased to hear the updates and direction you have in mind. Tena Sakai -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] on behalf of Tobias Downer Sent: Tue 1/29/2008 8:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Any update on Mckoi's status? =20 I'm still here. I can understand your pessimism about the Mckoi=20 project. However, the project is not going to be in limbo for much=20 longer and I'll be putting all doubts about the project being abandoned=20 soon. Just the past two months I've been straightening out the SQL=20 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=20 originally envisioned to take, that of a strict transactional database=20 codebase that is easy to understand and extend in any way a developer=20 may want, not just limited to SQL. To that end, I plan on adding a=20 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=20 hoping it will open the project up to a wider audience that are=20 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... > =20 > 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. > =20 > Either way, I am growing more pessimistic by the hour. > =20 > 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,=20 > the outsiders never will. > =20 > Maybe it's just me. > =20 > Alex Molochnikov >=20 --------------------------------------------------------------- Mckoi SQL Database mailing list http://www.mckoi.com/database/ To unsubscribe, send a message to [email protected] ------_=_NextPart_001_01C862FD.895FF2B5 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV=3D"Content-Type" CONTENT=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META NAME=3D"Generator" CONTENT=3D"MS Exchange Server version = 6.5.7651.59"> <TITLE>RE: Any update on Mckoi's status?</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <!-- Converted from text/plain format --> <P><FONT SIZE=3D2>Hi Toby,<BR> <BR> Thanks for your breaking silence. I am pleased<BR> to hear the updates and direction you have in<BR> mind.<BR> <BR> Tena Sakai<BR> <BR> <BR> -----Original Message-----<BR> From: [email protected] on behalf of Tobias Downer<BR> Sent: Tue 1/29/2008 8:02 PM<BR> To: [email protected]<BR> Subject: Re: Any update on Mckoi's status?<BR> <BR> I'm still here. I can understand your pessimism about the = Mckoi<BR> project. However, the project is not going to be in limbo for = much<BR> longer and I'll be putting all doubts about the project being = abandoned<BR> soon. Just the past two months I've been straightening out the = SQL<BR> parser, planner and optimizer in v2 and it's coming together = nicely. As<BR> soon as I have a build that is usable, it'll be up on the website.<BR> <BR> Version 2 is intended to return the project to the track it was<BR> originally envisioned to take, that of a strict transactional = database<BR> codebase that is easy to understand and extend in any way a = developer<BR> may want, not just limited to SQL. To that end, I plan on adding = a<BR> great deal more documentation about how Mckoi works and examples of = what<BR> you can do with it to the website. I think people who are = interested in<BR> the workings of transactional databases will like this a lot and I'm<BR> hoping it will open the project up to a wider audience that are<BR> interested in more primitive data storage/query APIs but want the = option<BR> of going to a full featured SQL system when needed.<BR> <BR> There's a lot of new stuff I can't wait to show off. Don't be = surprised<BR> if a lot of new stuff suddenly starts happening around here.<BR> <BR> Toby.<BR> <BR> Alexander Molochnikov wrote:<BR> > The silence is deafening...<BR> > <BR> > I mean the silence of Toby, the original developer. If he is no = longer<BR> > watching this mailing list, this speaks for itself. If he is = watching,<BR> > but keeps silent, then this is even more telling.<BR> > <BR> > Either way, I am growing more pessimistic by the hour.<BR> > <BR> > And no, I do not expect a group of other Java programmers to pick = up a<BR> > project that seems to have been abandoned. If the original authors = did<BR> > not have enough interest and/or confidence in the merits of the = project,<BR> > the outsiders never will.<BR> > <BR> > Maybe it's just me.<BR> > <BR> > Alex Molochnikov<BR> ><BR> <BR> <BR> ---------------------------------------------------------------<BR> Mckoi SQL Database mailing list <A = HREF=3D"http://www.mckoi.com/database/">http://www.mckoi.com/database/</A= ><BR> To unsubscribe, send a message to [email protected]<BR> <BR> <BR> </FONT> </P> </BODY> </HTML> ------_=_NextPart_001_01C862FD.895FF2B5--