maybe on platforms other than Windows it is still an issue? On Wed, 13 Jan 2021 at 12:45, Harmander Singh <hrmndrsi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 outdated 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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