[Pipet Devel] Good news on the XDBM front

[Gary Van Domselaar]

Brad Chapman wrote:
> 
> Hey all;
>         I've been listening in on the FreeDOM/XDBM lists (our potential XML
> database/interface) and just wanted to keep you up to date with what is
> going on there:
> 
> 1. There are 3 people (including myself, humbly representing Loci)
> interested in  python bindings to XDBM.
> 
> 2. Talk is just starting up for developing these, so hopefully, they should
> be on the way before any other language bindings. Yay!
> 
> 3. The next version of XDBM will be dual-liscened under the GPL, so it
> looks like it will be no problem to use it with Loci. Double yay! There is
> also talk of making the FreeDOM bindings themselves LGPL, so I think in
> general we should have no liscensing problems with FreeDOM/XDBM.

Yaaay!!!

-- 
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Gary Van Domselaar		gvd at redpoll.pharmacy.ualberta.ca
Faculty of Pharmacy 		Phone: (780) 492-4493
University of Alberta		FAX:   (780) 492-5305
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada       http://redpoll.pharmacy.ualberta.ca/~gvd