From: Jamey Cribbs <cribbsj@...>
Date: 2004-06-24T01:07:08+09:00
Subject: ANN: KirbyBase 1.6

KirbyBase is a small, plain-text, dbms written in Python or Ruby.  It
can be used either embedded or client/server.

You can find more information on KirbyBase at:
http://www.netpromi.com/kirbybase.html

You can download KirbyBase for Ruby at:
http://www.netpromi.com/files/KirbyBase_Ruby_1.6.zip

Changes in Version 1.6:

* On numeric comparisons, you can now specify negative numbers.
* Fixed a bug where program would crash if you had a space between the
   comparison operator and the number in numeric comparisons in select
   statement.
* You can select all records by specifying that you want to match
   'recno' against '*'.
* Approximately 60% speed imporvement by checking if a string needs to
   be encoded/unencoded first instead of just encoding/unencoding all
   strings.
* Approximately 20% speed improvement by changing the internal
   representation of field types from strings to symbols.
* This only applies to the Python version.  Added a compatibility layer
   for declaring field types when creating a table.  If you use the new
   compatible field types when creating a table, you can use the table
   either from the Python or Ruby version of KirbyBase without having to
   change anything.
* Changed the record-counter and deleted-records-counter in the
   header record of the table to be zero padded instead of spaces
   padded.

Jamey Cribbs
jcribbs@twmi.rr.com