I agree with Rony. The beta version is of good quality The reputation of Rexx needs to be protected and enhanced by the improvements.
Cyril On Mon, 11 Jan 2021 at 16:15, Rony G. Flatscher <rony.flatsc...@wu.ac.at> wrote: > On February 24th 2021, it will be seven (!) years since the last official > release of ooRexx took > place, believe it or not! > > People who do not follow this list or the ooRexx code updates on > Sourceforge will think, that > maintenance, let alone development, of ooRexx has ceased seven years ago! > :( > > This puts pressure on those people in organisations/businesses who use > Rexx/ooRexx but are faced > with demands of replacements with more modern, maintained and continuously > developed programming > languages like Python, Ruby and the like. > > Also, people who suggest to allow usage of ooRexx in > organisations/businesses will usually get > turned down as ooRexx is outdated and not maintained, so why using it? > Learning about a beta version > does not help as everyone knows that beta means error-prone, unstable > software and the like, and as > a result organisations/businesses usually prohibit usage and deployment of > beta software. > > As ooRexx 5.0 beta has been in an excellent condition for many years, it > could have been released > years ago! ooRexx 5.0 beta adds a wealth of great new features, in > addition very notable speed > improvements and fixes many bugs of the seven years old ooRexx 4.2, the > last official release of > ooRexx! > > As no show-stoppers are present I think that the current version of ooRexx > 5.0 beta should be > released ASAP as is. The only thing needed would be a new package that is > declared to be the release > package! > > Is there a will for a release? If so, can the release be done by February > 24th 2021? > > ---rony > > P.S.: Also, once a release is done, I would suggest to make sure to create > a yearly (!) release, > even if they are only microreleases! This will signal ongoing maintenance > and development to > outsiders/users of ooRexx, which has been the case for all those past > years (but lacking releases > this was not communicated successfully to outsiders/users of ooRexx). > > P.P.S.: In today's world the release cycles are critical to public > reception of the healthiness of > (software) projects it seems, probably the main reason why Linux creates > even twice a year a > release, but also Java/OpenJDK and others. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Oorexx-devel mailing list > Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel > -- Kind regards
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