About 42 (FT)
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FT is a graph database management system for the GNUstep and Mac OS X
environment and is written in objective-c.

The main intention behind FT is to have a system which manages generic graphs
on the one hand and which allows to connect elements of such graphs, like e. g.
nodes, to heterogenous, external resources.

In its present state FT supports the storage of generic graphs in a
native storage. This includes the creation of nodes, linking of nodes via edges
etc. Currently there exists a service connecting a berkeley database to nodes.
This is implemented as a dictionary service allowing the storage of
key/object pairs in a node.

The current state of FT is *far, far away from productive* usage.
The current API is not divided into public and non-public API (and may
be modified in future), but it's a good way to primarely take the
focus on the protocols.

FT is based on wrapper for Berkeley DB, which is called BDB. BDB is also
part of the FT project at sourceforge and can be downloaded from there
(see below). It runs under GNUstep and OS X.

To see how to use FT you may take a look into the preleminary introduction which
is given under
  doc/Introduction
In addition you may also take a look into the testcases stored under "tests/".

To install FT please refer to INSTALL.


Downloading FT
===============

FT and BDB are available at
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/fortytwo/

The homepage of Berkeley DB Database is to be found at
  http://www.sleepycat.com/


Installation
============

Please refer to the file INSTALL.


Authors of FT
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FT was originally developed by Oliver Langer
(oliverlanger *AT* gmx *DOT* de).


Maintainers
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The software is currently maintained by Oliver Langer.


License
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The software is available under the GNU Lesser General Public License.
A corresponding license file is contained in this package
(see LICENSE).