Re: Update on the status of Mckoi SQL

[Tobias Downer <toby@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Antonello,

Unfortunately I have to ask for a little more patience from you and the 
community on the next release of Mckoi.  I was hoping I'd have the code 
to give out by now, but adding the new features we wanted in this 
release has been a huge undertaking.

The reason for the lengthy overhaul of the code was the introduction of 
a new 64 bit data storage system which I intend will be the final 
revision of the data storage system in Mckoi.  The new data store system 
is a complete rewrite and wraps all the low level database storage/query 
functionality into a simple interface which leads to many elegant ways 
to implement the higher level database functions.  What this means is 
the next version of Mckoi will be able to scale up to massive data sets 
and will have a very flexible index and list management function.

The data store code is finished.  The reason why the release hasn't 
happened sooner is because the change has not turned out to be an 
incremental revision of the codebase.  Most of the code that involves 
managing data and indexes has needed to be updated or rewritten and many 
of the higher level data management code has been effected in some way 
from the changes.

The code is slowly coming together and there will be a new release soon 
and it will be considerably more advanced than the current release.  I 
hope the quality of the code will speak for itself when it's done.

Toby.

Antonello Provenzano wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm curious about the current status of the project: in a post dated
> 26th October 2005 Tobias announced the project was still alive and
> near to a new release.
> Since then nothing happened and many users continuously comply about
> the death of the project (that Tobias has always denied), trying to
> find an alternative.
> 
> Industrially a stable project that doesn't change large portions of
> its code is a good choice, but the lack of improvements, bug fixing or
> new features is a bad signal for the 'market'.
> 
> Hope this post was not bothering anyone and will find a concrete response.
> 
> Cheers.
> Antonello