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Subject: [comp.os.linux.announce: Onyx 2.30 is out]
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 94 11:18:03 -0700
Message-ID: <199408081818.LAA12357@nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU> (raw)
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From: michael kraehe <kraehe@bakunin.north.de>
Subject: Onyx 2.30 is out
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 1994 03:02:51 GMT
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just a new version. I think using postgres is important
for many people ;-) So I decided to make a new version more
quickly.
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Welcome to Onyx 2.30 a copylefted sql/4gl
News in 2.30
* SqlPostgres is now supported, I've got the patch from
<wwanders@sci.kun.nl> "William Wanders", and hope it
works correctly ;-) I dont have enough disk space to
test it with real data :-( But dummy tests works fine.
Abstract
* Onyx is my private SQL/4GL game, donated to all folks,
freaks and gurus who like the idea of copyleft ;-)
I started to write it because the department of environment
in Bremen had several DOS boxes with Informix, crashing
frequently, so we decided to use Linux as clients when IP
became stable with 0.99p6.
* Onyx has its own transaction manager, which is built by an
object oriented predicative parser generator. Just another
game but very useful as this funny thing also produces
header files and manual pages.
So it's posible to parse what I call "crippled SQL" and
produce commands for other engines like University Ingres or
even GNU awk.
If you have a real SQL engine, you'll use their "real" SQL
of course and not my crippled one ;-)
* The main goal of the transaction manager is to implement a
protocol for connecting applications to a database in a
vendor independent way. Ingres89, Postgres, Yard, GAWK,
Shql are now supported, and others are planned.
So any application capable of connecting to port is able to
use my protocol which is documented in a RFC-like style.
* Onyx has a 4GL which is more a shell, but unlike other shells
knows about tables, transactions, masks and menus.
Onyx is designed by the Model-View-Controller paradigm,
so tables are the model, masks are the views and transactions
are the controllers which can be bound to an input field,
a menu, function keys or the change of the current record
in a cursor.
* Unlike other 4GL's Onyx doesn't hide the system, so it's
easy to export or import from a pipe and use the many tools
*nix has. E.g., I'm using a pipe to "gawk | groff | lpr" to
print my bills, or a pipe from "tar | gawk" to manage my
tapes.
* Copyleft is a chance that good programmers won't need to
work for a big company, or become a slave of their
distribution channels.
Linux and Onyx is a chance for database application
programmers to sell their solutions and support to the
customers without the need to pay a lot to the big companies
for using their tools, and listen for hours to "please hold
the line" if they need support.
News in 2.29
* dynasel as a new import statement to make selecting much more
user friendly, see manual page for transaction grammar.
* fixed bug in SqlGawk when deleting everything.
* the example application/fakt now looks really nice.
News in 2.28
* Directory structure and configuration redesigned.
Make config gives an editor (vi) to edit configuration which
will be parsed by awk to produce the files. Trouble with old
.C files and missing .h files solved.
(I hope ;-)
* A lot of work arounds, for C++ related bugs in GCC > 2.4
Should now compile with gcc 2.5.8 and I hope above.
* Yard now seems stable, a lot of trouble with permissions in
shared memory (I hate SysPfeifDrauf, but I don't want to
translate this German joke ;-)
News in 2.27
* First binary relase just for test at wowbagger.
* Now supporting Yard as a commercial database engine
available for Linux.
* Some hacks for multiple cursors in one mask. See app/fakt as
an example. Needs more hacking for displaying them as rows
and columns, and mixed in a mask.
How to get it
V32bis: bakunin.north.de +49 421 870523
ftp: wowbagger.pc-labor.uni-bremen.de pub/unix/databases
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For further information take a look in the doc directory,
be warned some docs are produced while compiling.
If you really want to use it send mail to
<kraehe@bakunin.north.de>
If you'd like to donate beer or postcards, send them to :
Kraehe
Karl Toma Allee 4
28215 Free Republic Weidedamm III
Bremen/Germany
If you'd like to donate money, send it to :
Michael Koehne
Sparkasse Bremen
Bankleitzahl : 290 501 01
Konto : 3189 3019
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" ceterum censeo MSDOS delendam esse " sagt der Guru und krault seinen Bart
kraehe@bakunin.north.de
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