Hi Gary, I'd like to help if possible. What would be involved?
Also, is an alpha/beta release to Maven a possibility as a 'more accessible' alternative? Best regards, Kervin On Sun, 2015-05-10 at 22:26 -0500, Gary Gregory wrote: > Hello, it is not dormant. It's just that no one has volunteered to cut a > release candidate. The component is due for a refresh. I did not realize it > had been so long since a release. > Any volunteers? > > Gary > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Kervin Pierre <ker...@sludev.com> > Date: 05/10/2015 18:20 (GMT-06:00) > To: dev@commons.apache.org > Subject: [io] Is commons-io dormant? > > Hi, > > The last snapshot ( 2.5-SNAPSHOT ) seems to be over a year old, and last > release 2.4 was in 2012 ( I believe, please correct me if I'm wrong ). > > I started using its Tailer class in 2.4 and realized there are a few > bugs. Some are fixed over a year now in SVN. E.g. commons-io 2.4 > version swallows InterruptException. For a class that blocks most of > its life that's very inconvenient when trying to shutdown the thread. > Also there are fixes relating to > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IO-279 which although aren't > entirely fixed, have been made much better but are only in the snapshot. > > So is commons-io dormant? Is there something users can do to help if > it's a time-resource issue? > > Best regards, > Kervin > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
