Albuquerque, NM Ð Stone Design has released DataPhile 1.1, which incorporates many bug fixes and is much faster than Version 1.0, thanks to an improved implementation of the NeXTSTEP Indexing Kit provided by NeXT.
"There were between 40 and 50 bugs in the IXKit that NeXT knew about," said Andrew Stone, president of Stone Design. "The ones that were affecting us would trash the indexes. It wouldn't ruin the database because the user could delete the indexes and start over, but it was annoying."
DataPhile 1.1 will use a special version of the NeXTSTEP 3.1 Indexing Kit that was back-ported to NeXTSTEP 2.1 in order to provide compatibility for sites that have not yet upgraded their equipment. The work was done by Jack Greenfield, a NeXT software engineer.
Stone Design is also working on a network version of DataPhile, for release this fall, that should allow multiuser, read-and-write access to the database with record locking and security features. "You will be able to define who can see what," said Stone.