On 2021-01-12 19:47:59 Harmander Singh wrote:
> maybe on platforms other than Windows it is still an issue?
I believe so. If I understand correctly, in Windows strings are stored
as
16-bit characters, but not on other platforms.
Leslie
>
> 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 outdated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
> >> --
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