This past year there have been many remarkable changes (performance improvements from 1.2x to 20x times, memory management, multi threading) and additions (ADDRESS...WITH, variable references) to ooRexx 5.0 beta, which already was great with respect to valuabel and new features a year ago!
Judging from my work on BSF4ooRexx and ooRexx projects, ooRexx 5.0beta has become stabler, faster and more versatile than the almost five years old ooRexx 4.2.0 (release date: February 2014). Therefore, I think, it is time to create a release version of ooRexx 5.0beta, such that companies and organisations become able to install and take advantage of it! (As long as software is dubbed "beta" it usually does not get deployed for professional purposes in organisations.) So I suggest to create a branch 5.0.0 which does not take any new features anymore, just bug-fixes and materials to complete it (e.g. test units, documentation) "as fast as possible". (Any new features would go to trunk only and could be used to create a 5.1 version shortly after the release of 5.0.) ---rony P.S.: After the release of 5.0 I would really suggest to create a version 5.1 as soon as possible thereafter, which allows ooRexx to be run without administrative privileges on Windows, Linux and MacOSX! P.P.S.: There are many important additional features for ooRexx post 5.x like Unicode-support, now that even English versions of Windows create Unicode text files by default, let alone international users of ooRexx with a need for support for their culture's glyphs (also speeding up/simplifying interfacing with Unicode-systems like Java, applications employing Unicode for which ooRexx should serve as a scripting language, but also operating systems like Linux, MacOSX and Windows). Or getting a NetRexx like catch-finally construct, or ... much, much more! :) _______________________________________________ Oorexx-devel mailing list Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
