re the 7-bit ASCII issue, the situation seems to hve vastly improved, as some time back Notepad has started using UTF-8 files by default. I now find I can process such files in a natural way using ooRexx. Earlier it used to be a great pain.
Harmander Singh On Tue, 12 Jan 2021 at 13:06, J Leslie Turriff <jlturr...@mail.com> 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 outdated 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 > -- > > > _______________________________________________ > Oorexx-devel mailing list > Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel >
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