Re: Any update on Mckoi's status?

["Bayless Kirtley" <bkirt@xxxxxxx>]

Yes, I too am pleased to hear that you are still involved Toby. If you
do open up development, I'm sure there will be others willing to help.
I include myself in that too.

Bayless

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alex Molochnikov" <molochnikov@shaw.ca>
To: <mckoidb@mckoi.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 10:41 PM
Subject: Re: Any update on Mckoi's status?


> That's a good news. Glad to hear the project is alive.
>
> Best wishes.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tobias Downer" <toby@mckoi.com>
> To: <mckoidb@mckoi.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 9:02 PM
> Subject: Re: Any update on Mckoi's status?
>
>
>> 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
>> >
>>
>>
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