Re: Any update on Mckoi's status?

[Tobias Downer <toby@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm still here.  I can understand your pessimism about the Mckoi 
project.  However, the project is not going to be in limbo for much 
longer and I'll be putting all doubts about the project being abandoned 
soon.  Just the past two months I've been straightening out the SQL 
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 
originally envisioned to take, that of a strict transactional database 
codebase that is easy to understand and extend in any way a developer 
may want, not just limited to SQL.  To that end, I plan on adding a 
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 
hoping it will open the project up to a wider audience that are 
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...
>  
> 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.
>  
> Either way, I am growing more pessimistic by the hour.
>  
> 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, 
> the outsiders never will.
>  
> Maybe it's just me.
>  
> Alex Molochnikov
>