On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 02:57:57PM -0400, Brad Clements wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> I see rumours of another Coda release coming up, anyone have an idea 
> when? I'm still thinking about using Coda as the basis for a distributed 
> object database for Zope (http://www.zope.org) 

Well, I keep on finding these small problems. I can throw it out now
that everything seems to build, but maybe running the code for a day on
our servers will shake out the last couple of fatal bugs. (no promises
about the non-fatal ones ;)

> I suspect I'll embed a modified venus directly in the Zope application, 
> rather than relying on the host OS being a Coda client (not sure if that 
> will work).

You might be able to replace the venus->kernel stuff with
venus->unix-domain-socket and have the Zope application write `upcalls'
into it's end of the pipe.

> Anyone have any thoughts on if or how the pending open source release 
> of AFS will impact Coda, if at all?

I don't know, both AFS3 and Coda have deviated in many ways from their
common root, AFS2. There is probably little to no code that is still
shared between the two.

Jan