Re: [MirageOS-devel] [ANN] Ezirmin.0.1.0 : An easy interface on top of Irmin

[Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 29 Dec 2016, at 17:57, KC Sivaramakrishnan <sk826@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> Hope you've had a great Christmas and are looking forward to the New Year!
> 
> I am pleased to announce the release of Ezirmin library.
> 
> https://github.com/kayceesrk/ezirmin
> 
> Ezirmin provides a simple de-functorized interface on top of the Irmin 
> library. It comes with set of mergeable data types, instantiated to specific 
> backends to quickly get going. I built Ezirmin since every time I came back 
> to using Irmin after a break, I had to relearn how to instantiate the various 
> functors. The de-functorized interface will (hopefully) reduce the entry 
> barrier to using Irmin. Consequently, Ezirmin is not intended to provide all 
> the functionality of Irmin, and only factors in commonly used features.
> 
> The second goal of Ezirmin is to build and maintain a library of persistent 
> mergeable data types (CRDTs with persistence). The wonderful efficient 
> mergeable data types such as queues[0] and ropes[1] do not seem to be 
> actively maintained, and Ezirmin is an attempt to maintain and encourage 
> their use. 
> 
> Any and all comments are warmly welcome.

Thanks for contributing this, KC!  I've hooked it into the latest refresh of 
the docs.mirage.io build, so it should be available there in a few hours once: 
https://github.com/mirage/mirage/pull/759 is merged.

regards,
Anil
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