Database options was (Re: My first Magma experience ...)

Daniel Salama dsalama at user.net
Mon Apr 4 15:41:27 UTC 2005


My understanding from David is that the commercial license does not 
have Linux file locking support. I'd be willing to buy a commercial 
license immediately if I knew the support for Linux was there.

On Apr 4, 2005, at 11:25 AM, Cees de Groot wrote:

> On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 09:49:53 -0400, David T. Lewis 
> <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
>
>> File locking for unix/linux is provided by OSProcess (see SqueakMap).
>> I understand that this has been successfully used with Omnibase, and
>> as far as I know the "availability" question is something to do with
>> the commercial versus non-commercial version of Omnibase or perhaps
>> some licensing issue.
>>
> The major issue for the NC version is that it is old. However, I've 
> done my share of pestering David (and only buying 1 (one) commercial 
> license), so I'm hesitant to ask him for favors here, especially since 
> I have the full code. I'd *love* to see an up-to-date OmniBase for 
> Squeak, though. If only to expose more people to this wonderful piece 
> of work.
>
> The commercial version is up-to-date, I haven't checked whether the 
> Linux version has file locking in there, but if it doesn't, as I said, 
> it's a small matter to get it in (mostly testing).




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