Robert, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Mon, 5 May 2003, Jeremias Maerki wrote: > > >>0.20.5rc3 will arrive shortly. The last few things are being sorted out. > > cool. i was about to launch into a major project using FOP, > but if a new version will be out in, say, the next few days(?), > i'll hold off.
We almost made the mistake of waiting for the next release candidate (rc3, in fact), and we're glad we didn't. One project was briefly put on hold for 0.20.5rc3 at the end of February (rc3 was hinted at a release Feb 28 & our project release date was early March). Unfortunately, rc3 was put on hold. At the time, I believe it was primarily due to the hope that licensing issues with the hyphenation dictionaries would quickly be resolved. Since we'd done our testing with 0.20.4 & 0.20.5rc2, it wasn't difficult to scale back to 0.20.4 (there were serious problems with a duplicate content bug in rc2). In the end, our client followed my recommendations against waiting for rc3. We are pleased with that decision. If FOP rc3 still awaits licensing issues, there are no guarantees when it'll be released. There've been predictions when rc3 will be released, but as is usually the case with project release dates, regarding rc3 all have past. My company doesn't currently use hyphenation, so if the delay were due to waiting for hyphenation licenses, it would be particularly frustrating (ignorance can be bliss). I suspect (hope?) there are other reasons why rc3 is being held up. As others have heard (rant?) before, since rc3 has "release candidate" as its middle name, one would think it would've been released by now so we can put it through the paces and make certain 0.20.5 is bug-free. After all, 0.20.5 is rumored to be the last release of the maintenance branch. Arguably, it'll be months (6+?) before we see a usable release from the "trunk". Even then, there's no guarantee it will be able to produce the same beautiful results as 0.20.5. As always, eager to help, and looking forward to rc3... Respectfully, -- Clay Leeds - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Developer - Medata, Inc. - http://www.medata.com PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/cleeds.asc --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
