As I'm sure anyone reading this knows, the next official release of ooRexx is going to be 4.0.0. A major release with a big internal code improvement, but also quite a bit of new stuff at the user level.
And, I'm sure everyone is aware we haven't had an official release since last November. We'd all like to get the release out the door. There still is significant documentation and testing to be done, but I think we can see the light at the end of the tunnel there. However, there is one large item that remains undone. The orxscript extension is currently turned off in the build because it has not been updated and is not currently working. Getting it ready to go, I think, will take a significant amount of time. So, I'm going to float this idea / proposal to the list, see what others think. I think it is quite possible that a lot of people / users would rather see 4.0.0 released sooner with orxscript support turned off than wait, what will surely be an added 3 months or so, for 4.0.0 with orxscript. Then we could commit to getting a minor release with orxcript turned back on as quickly as possible. Probably commit to not start any new work and just focus on orxscript until that minor release was done. I anticipate that the minor release could be done about 3 months after the major 4.0.0 release. Chances are good that we would also have a few bug fixes in that minor release, making it a good general release. Not just a Windows update. I'd like to know what people think about this. I'll float it by RexxLA after / if there is a consensus here that it is acceptable. -- Mark Miesfeld ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Oorexx-devel mailing list Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
