Persistency question...

[Robert Story]

At 12:51 AM +0100 2/29/00, Frank Fock wrote:
>Robert Story wrote:
>
>  > At 1:25 AM +0100 2/18/00, Frank Fock wrote:
>  > >I agree to all three points. I will try to implement something like
>  > >a VirtualMibTable for the next release (including an interface for
>  > >fine grain persistency). In my opinion, it will be sufficient to subclass
>  > >MibTable, but I am not sure...
>  >
>  > I'm interested in this functionality as well. What is the schedule
>  > for the next release?
>
>Version 3.4 will be released until 31th March 2000. I have already reworked
>the persistency concept. It's know significantly faster and needs less disk
>space.
>A framework for a Load-On-Demand MibTable is rather complicated, because
>it needs something like a database system below. Using the file 
>system for row indexing seems a bit overkill for me.
>
>As a consequence, I will implement an abstract VirtualMibTable class, that
>implements all necessary interfaces needed to integrate a real database into
>an AGENT++ table.

Yes, I think an abstract class is the way to go.

Unfortunately, your release date is a little too far out for me. I 
need to be coding now. I don't suppose you have CVS access to the 
source code? Or perhaps you could have weekly development/alpha 
releases?