The post <http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvtype?LINUX-VM.97729> on the Linux on Z mailing list points
the programmers to a set of updated programs. It is interesting among other things to note that it
includes ooRexx! :)
It is ooRexx 4.2 though, which was released on 2014-02-24, almost nine and three quarters of a year
ago.
The current ooRexx 5.0*beta* has many bugs of ooRexx 4.2 fixed, it has many more and very useful
features, and it is noticeably faster! So - we all know that here - ooRexx 5.0*beta* would be
definitely a huge improvement to anyone who has been using and deploying ooRexx 4.x!
Why not create a release "ooRexx 5.0" from the current trunk and remove "beta" from it? Continue
with enhancing and fixing ooRexx 5.0 and have at least once a year a new version to be dubbed a
"release" when it passes the ooRexx test suite without any show-stopper errors (preferably right
before the yearly International Rexx Symposium).
Or maybe even a "rolling release": whenever changes occur, but the test suite passes without any
show-stopper errors, place it in a release folder on SourceForge rather than in a beta folder. This
way anyone - including companies - have the ability to download and use the latest version being
sure that the test-suite ran without any show-stopper errors. It would also allow for an
"up-to-date" feeling and having the world see that it gets continually enhanced!
If ooRexx 5.0 just had lost the word "beta" in it I am quite sure that the poster of "Sir Santa's
Bag for 2022" would have included ooRexx 5.0 instead of the almost ten year old 4.2 version. Linux
on Z user would then had been able to take advantage of all those great enhancements and
improvements in ooRexx 5.0.
All it would take is a consensus among the developers and decide which version (the trunk version?)
should be picked for a formal release to signal the world that it is good enough to be used in
production.
---rony
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