From: George Moschovitis <george.moschovitis@...>
Date: 2005-11-14T18:26:05+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] KirbyBase 2.4

congrats for a new release!

-g.


On 11/13/05, Jamey Cribbs <jcribbs@twmi.rr.com> wrote:
> I would like to announce the release of version 2.4 of KirbyBase, a
> small, pure-Ruby database management system that stores it's data in
> plain-text files.
>
> You can download it here:
>
> Windows:  http://www.netpromi.com/files/KirbyBase_Ruby_2.4.zip
> Linux/Unix:  http://www.netpromi.com/files/KirbyBase_Ruby_2.4.tar.gz
>
> I know, I know, where's the gem?  Well, it's not for lack of help.  Both
> Hugh Sasse and Assaph Mehr have been kind enough to supply me with
> gemspec files for KirbyBase.  I promise I will put a gem together real
> soon now.
>
>
> Anyway, here's whats new in this release:
>
> * Added a new column type: :Time.  Thanks to George Moschovitis for coding
>   this enhancement.
> * Added more functionality to Memo and Blob fields.  They are no longer
>   just read-only.  You can now also write to them from KirbyBase.  The
>   interface for Memo and Blob fields has changed because of this.
> * Added the ability to specify, when you initialize a database connection,
>   a base directory where memo/blob fields will be stored.
> * Changed the way indexes are handled by KBTable in client/server mode.
>   Now, when KBTable grabs an index from KBEngine, it will hold onto it and
>   re-use it unless it has been modified since the last time it grabbed it.
>   This speeds up subsequent queries on the same index.
> * Removed the restriction that the child table had to exist before you
>   could define a Link_many field in #create_table.  I did this so that
>   it would possible to now define many-to-many links.  See the example in
>   the distribution.  This also goes for Lookup fields.
> * Added two sample scripts:  kbserverctl.rb and kbserver_daemon.rb, that
>   show how to set up a KirbyBase server process as a Windows Service.
>   Thanks to Daniel Berger for his excellent package, win32-service.
> * Thouroughly revised the manual.  I used the excellent text document
>   formatter, AsciiDoc.  Many thanks to Stuart Rackham for developing this
>   great tool.
> * Fixed a bug in KBTable#clear that was causing the recno counter not to
>   be reset.  Thanks to basi for this.
>
>
> I would like to thank all of the people who provided bug fixes,
> suggestions, and ideas for version 2.4.
> Enjoy!
>
> Jamey Cribbs
> jcribbs@twmi.rr.com
>
>


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