Re: lisp mail archive software

On Sunday, July 6, 2003, at 07:19 PM, Miles Egan wrote:

> I haven't really thought very hard about this yet but I was leaning
> towards using Eric Marsden's PG postgresql library. The cool thing 
> about
> PG is that it speaks PG's network protocol directly and doesn't require
> FFI bindings.

I have good experiences using this code: it works well (as well as 
fast), doesn't need FFI and the implementation is quite readable and 
understandable (I made a couple of changes to it).

> I'd like to avoid using a database at all if possible but the more I
> think about the more it seems like I'd have to implement enough of one
> by hand that I might as well just accept it.

Then maybe you should have a look at Object Prevalence, I did a proof 
of concept implementation for common lisp ( 
http://homepage.mac.com/svc/prevalence ). I am currently doing a 'real' 
project where I will be using my Common Lisp Prevalence code - so I 
might still change.

Sven