Jamey Cribbs wrote:
>>
>>> Well, I have written a pure-Ruby dbms library called
>>> KirbyBase (http://www.netpromi.com/kirbybase.html).
>>
>> In which case, how hard would it be to make it
>> distributed using dRuby? Just a thought ...
>>
> It already is! :-) 
> There is a script in the KirbyBase distribution called kbserver.rb that 
> uses dRuby to turn KirbyBase into a client/server multi-user dbms.
> 
> The reason why I did not include Hal's feature #1 in my earlier email is 
> that I thought he meant "distributed as part of the standard Ruby 
> libraries".  Maybe I misunderstood.  :-)

No, you understood right. Although "distributed" in the
other sense is also interesting, and I had simply not
thought of that.


Hal