> Am 06.05.2024 um 16:47 schrieb Dirk Nel <dirkockert...@gmail.com>:
> 
> I'll definitely check it out..! and for those who are not in the know... what 
> inspired the name? :)

- I like the word
- It has only four letters which qualifies as a class prefix
- To me as a non-native speaker it means: ground layer you can build/grow on

Norbert

> 
> On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 at 17:47, Tim Mackinnon <tim@testit.works> wrote:
>> That's really exciting news... appreciate you sharing it with the wider 
>> community (I know when you mentioned its existence a while back I went and 
>> watched the Esug recordings to get more info, and looked at some of the 
>> extensive test cases to get a feel on what it looked like - its neat).
>> 
>> Having multiple options for persisting data (from simple Fuel up to Soil and 
>> Glorp and Gemstone) is very useful.
>> 
>> Tim
>> 
>> On Wed, 24 Apr 2024, at 12:52 PM, Norbert Hartl wrote:
>>> ...we said at last ESUG that there will be a release soonish but as usual 
>>> it doesn't go that fast. 
>>> 
>>> But now we are very happy to announce that Soil has a first public release 
>>> v1. So what is soil?
>>> 
>>> Soil is an object oriented database in pharo <http://pharo.org/>. It is 
>>> transaction based having ACID transactions. It has binary search 
>>> capabilities with SkipList and BTree+ indexes. It aims to be a simple yet 
>>> powerful database making it easy to develop with, easy to debug with, easy 
>>> to inspect, ...
>>> 
>>> More details at https://github.com/ApptiveGrid/Soil
>>> 
>>> This release is still considered early stage because 
>>> 
>>> although in ApptiveGrid there are over 4000 instances of it and there are 
>>> other users there isn't a wider range of use cases, yet. So it is not fully 
>>> battle tested. This just as reminder when you start compaining I need 
>>> somewhere to point my finger to and say "I told you!" ;)
>>> there are few things missing that you might expect like garbage collection, 
>>> etc.
>>> 
>>> So but it is definetely usable and awaiting the brave ones of you to try. 
>>> 
>>> Hopy you enjoy it!
>>> 
>>> Norbert & Marcus
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