Today, we released the new version of Minosse (still in ALPHA) that redefines the design of all the system. We decided, in fact, to rationalize the development of all the parts of the system, distinguishing from the core parts (now groupped in mdblib.dll) and the daemon (minossed.exe). The redesign of Minosse will make it easier for developers to use it from inside their applications for the storage, retrieving and manipulation of data, without loading all the code part relative to server instances. On the other side, the use of the daemon as a standalone server or as a service (on Windows systems) will be easier and more flexible.
In this latest version of Minosse, we removed all the references to System.Data namespace that could cause problems running the system on Mono framework (that supports data differently from .NET), in the spirit of plenty compatibility to Mono framework.
We also developed a client for connecting over TCP/IP connection from remote hosts (or even locally) , named mdbcli, implementing all the main features defined in ADO.NET. We're planning the development of a JDBC client too.
The new generation of databses is born... We're waiting for it's first breath!
After some months of stop of the developments, Minosse have been updated and provided of a new, fast and functional SQL Parser. In the previous release we were trying using CC applications for creating SQL specific parsers. Unfortunally, all the applications we tested produced non usable parsers. Because of this reason we decided to build a brand new and self-made parser that speed up the parsing process and makes Minosse advance to the next step of the development process.
We just uploaded the first release of Minosse packaged in ZIP format, available for downloading. It contains all source codes and the #Develop project file. It needs to be linked to ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib from http://www.icsharpcode.net . Read the release notes for further informations.
We've just uploaded the source code of the project to the CVS server. You can find them at the address :ext:anonymous@forgecvs1.novell.com:cvsroot/minosse
Enjoy
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