Until Rony mentioned it, I had not realized that it had been that long...
I am seeing a number of folks around here, plugging away at Python because
there are a number of "editorial sites" pushing it as the language of
the future.
In at least one case, I redid one persons Python's efforts in ooRexx
using a classical
coding style in far less time then the original developer spent coding
in Python.
(It was proprietary code, so I cannot discuss further details.)
Unfortunately, I still don't grasp Object Orientated design concepts
well enough
to make good use of OO code, especially when it comes to "globally" sharing
data across various procedures or methods in the same program.
Luckily for me, ooRexx allows BOTH coding styles in the same program, so
I am
able to create some nice things for family and friends.
- - -
A problem that I recently ran into was that some of the add-on packages
do not seem
to be maintained either, and in the case of ooSQLite, the package was
never completed,
or at least the documentation never was.
I have been able to make use of some features, but not all,
since the documentation is incomplete.
Since I have been a long time member of this group, I know why ooSQLite
was not completed, but outsiders have no such knowledge.
- - -
Has anybody ever gotten RexxMod to work under current software versions
of Apache and ooRexx (especially on Linux)?
I have not been able to do so, and I do not have enough LINUX internals
knowledge to get it to install correctly. But I do have several
applications
that could make HEAVY use of RexxMod if I could get it to install.
Most of the apps, would be used by area Amateur Radio operators
that are involved in Emergency Communications type functions.
/s/ Bill Turner, wb4alm
On 1/11/21 9:05 PM, J Leslie Turriff wrote:
On 2021-01-11 10:14:54 Rony G. Flatscher 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organisations/businesses will usually get turned down as ooRexx is outdated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.
Another reason that ooRexx will be viewed as outdated is that, unlike
other
popular scripting languages, it provides support only for 7-bit ASCII,
severely limiting its use globally.
Leslie
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