Dear Joseph Maria, The main reason why there has been no release since 5.0.0 is lack of manpower. When 5.0.0 was released there was no-one with recent experience in releasing ooRexx and I naively volunteered, with zip experience, hence the many mistakes made in the process :-(.
Also our build system that I maintain was less than optimal for release work and I ended up spending an entire week manually editing the build jobs several times before everything was in place. With 20+ platforms (some with 32/64 bit) that build and test + documentation build we have 70 jobs to consider whenever there is a change. Manually doing all this was a nightmare and before we release again we need to do some things to make releasing easier. I have some ideas but time is the limiting factor. I consider the „Beta“ in the name to be misleading, it is release quality IMO. What would be important is to hear about any „showstoppers“ that would prevent a release? I know of none. Hälsningar/Regards/Grüsse, P.O. Jonsson oor...@jonases.se > Am 26.03.2024 um 17:39 schrieb Josep Maria Blasco > <jose.maria.bla...@gmail.com>: > > Missatge de Rony G. Flatscher <rony.flatsc...@wu.ac.at > <mailto:rony.flatsc...@wu.ac.at>> del dia dt., 26 de març 2024 a les 16:32: > Trying to reactivate this thread. > > There are ooRexx users who depend on official releases as otherwise they > cannot take advantage of the latest versions (bug fixes, new features, etc.) > as this thread shows: > <https://sourceforge.net/p/oorexx/discussion/general/thread/0bd421f711/?limit=25#3458> > > <https://sourceforge.net/p/oorexx/discussion/general/thread/0bd421f711/?limit=25#3458>. > > I myself, before getting more involved in ooRexx, did not understand the long > period of beta for 5.0. I was not paying much attention to RexxLA mail, and I > saw 1) that ooRexx 5.0 was always in beta status, and 2) that Rony was always > saying that it was "of release quality" -- a contradiction, in my view: if it > was "of release quality", why wasn't it released? My conclusion was that Rony > was an enthusiast, and that the product, nevertheless, was still not ready (I > was right about the former but not about the latter :)). > > I only migrated to 5.0 when it was finally released. I can understand the > person who initiated the "No known bugs in ooRexx 5.oo worth to fix?" thread > perfectly. > > My impression is that not doing minor, fix releases can create a certain > impression that ooRexx is abandonware. Not good! > > Josep Maria > > _______________________________________________ > Oorexx-devel mailing list > Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
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