On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Esteban A. Maringolo <[email protected]>wrote:
> Muy bueno muchachos! > > Como no me gusta ninguno de los nombres que sugieren, les sugiero otro: > DBTalk. > > jejejejejej ta bien...gracias por la idea. Vamos que ver que elegimos finalmente,, > Saludos! > > Esteban A. Maringolo > > > > 2011/3/4 Mariano Martinez Peck <[email protected]>: > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: Mariano Martinez Peck <[email protected]> > > Date: Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:40 AM > > Subject: [ANN] ESUG supports once again SqueakDBX > > To: Pharo Development <[email protected]> > > Cc: ESUG Mailing list <[email protected]>, The general-purpose > Squeak > > developers list <[email protected]>, A friendly > place > > where any question about pharo is welcome > > <[email protected]> > > > > > > We are really happy to announce that ESUG will sponsor us once again > through > > the ESUG Summer Talk project. This means that we have reached the ESUG > > expectations and that they still think that relational database access is > an > > important matter in Smalltalk. > > > > One important thing is that we are going to rename the project (we are > still > > working on it) since SqueakDBX runs not only in Squeak but also in Pharo, > > and there have been even ports to Dolphin. What's the reason for this > > decision? Because we do not want to couple ourselves to a smalltalk > dialect > > nor to OpenDBX, because our project is much more than that (later I will > > tell you about our plans). So, these are some of the possible names: > > ObjectPark, SmallParking, Parktalk, SmallValet, Valetalk, ValetST, > > NorayTalk, Ballard, Noray and Cruise. Please let us know which one is > your > > favourite or help us find a new one. > > > > Another important subject is the team. There will be three "mentors", > > Esteban Lorenzano, Diogenes Moreira and myself, Mariano Martinez Peck; > and > > three students: Guillermo Polito, Nicolas Scarcella and Santiago > Bragagnolo. > > > > We are open to suggestions and ideas. In addition, we have defined a > > possible list of actions that I copy at the end of the email. > > > > For the moment, the url remains www.squeakdbx.org and the mailing > > list [email protected] > > > > Once again, we want to thank ESUG for their support and trust. > > > > Thank you very much, > > > > SqueakDBX team > > > > > > > > > > > > Possible list of actions: > > > > 1) Change SqueakDBX’s name. > > > > 2) Update GLORP version since the actual one is 3 years old. > > > > Port it again from VisualWorks, create a VW porting tool (may be). > > Complete support to Glorp. Today it works with PostgreSQL, Oracle and > > MySQL. Make it work with most databases OpenDBX supports. > > > > 3) Create a lightweight solution, alternatively to GLORP. There are some > > options: > > > > Make SqueakSave work with SqueakDBX. SqueakSave developers already > > contacted us because they wanted to do it. SqueakSave seems to be 20% > slower > > than Glorp but you don't need to write the mappings :) > > Adapt Ramon Leon's active record to use an abstract database driver, and > > create a driver for SqueakDBX. > > Port the new Glorp’s kind of active record to Pharo. (included in 2). > > > > 4) Write a Pharo By Example 2 chapter based on the card game Stef built > ;). > > > > 5) Cog compatibility. > > > > 6) Use Alien instead of FFI. > > Eliot is working on a threaded CogVM. One of the projects of the GSoC of > > this year was to make something similar to a threaded FFI. What the > student > > did is a modification in Alien (I think) that can be run in a > multithreaded > > envirorment. He worked with Eliot. The idea is when Eliot releases the > > threaded CogVM, this FFI would work our of the box, and would avoid > locking > > the WHOLE vm while a C function is being invoked (as it happens today > with > > FFI).....So....when that VM is released, we MUST migrate to that). > > > > 7) Explore performance issues (maybe with our approach of "In thread > > execution plugin"). > > > > 8) Complete integration with OpenDBX. For example, Oracle, for large > objects > > (Clob, Blob, etc) use specific functions. There are specific functions in > > OpenDBX that have to be used if the database uses specific functions > (oracle > > is the only one for the moment.). We don't manage those functions yet. > > > > 9) In this link http://www.squeakdbx.org/Targets%20and%20Features > > You can see a list of future possible features like Connection pooling > (now > > it is done!), Prepared statement interface, Store procedures, Escape and > > avoid of SQL insertion, Authentication support: extends to other methods, > > not only user/password, Full text support, etc. > > > > -- > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > > > http://www.clubSmalltalk.org > > -- > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > > http://www.clubSmalltalk.org -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] http://www.clubSmalltalk.org
