From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id VAA07709; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 21:00:10 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA08735 for ; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 21:00:09 +0100 (MET) Received: from swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id gBQK08H12580 for ; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 21:00:09 +0100 (MET) Received: from user-0cev2t6.cable.mindspring.com ([24.239.139.166] helo=[192.168.0.3]) by swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18ReAo-0004dH-00 for caml-list@inria.fr; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 12:00:06 -0800 Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Cross-platform DBM equivalent? From: "Yaron M. Minsky" To: Caml List In-Reply-To: <20021226071747.GC1071@swordfish> References: <20021226071747.GC1071@swordfish> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Cornell University Message-Id: <1040932804.1567.7.camel@dragonfly.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.1 Date: 26 Dec 2002 15:00:04 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Out of curiosity, why doesn't DBM work on Windows? Berkeley DB is certainly ported to Windows, so it seems like DBM should port over just fine as well. Anyone know what the issue is? y On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 02:17, Matt Gushee wrote: > Hello, all-- > > I am developing an application that needs fast access to persistent > configuration data, and I thought that DBM might be a good way to > provide that functionality ... but I see that DBM isn't available on > Windows. Is there something similar that works on all platforms? Or an > alternative approach? > > My project is a web server application, so it might be okay not to > support Windows, but I'd like it to be cross-platform if that can be > done without an unreasonable effort. > > By the way, I'm at an early prototyping stage, so I can't be much more > specific about my needs. What I can say at this point is that speed is > important; I think I need a key-value data structure, and it's probably > okay for the types of both keys and values to be limited to strings, as > with DBM. > > Thanks in advance for your suggestions. ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners