Charles thank you for your email.
The question is OpenBD dead? NO.
There has been no stable release for a number of years, and there won't
be another one. I stated in an email many years ago that we wouldn't
be releasing any more official releases, but instead instructed people
to use the "nightly" release. The code base is that stable and mature,
we are not making any huge changes to it.
In short ... it just works. aw2.0 is still using OpenBD actively in
their projects as are many thousands of others. We are make small
changes/fixes as and when they are reported. But the reality is that
show-stopping bugs are rare and far between these days.
But with the advent of richer/fatter clients .. the role of the server
side is diminishing. That is a sad fact, but the reality of web
development today.
So do we want to evolve and add new features to OpenBD? Well to be
frank yes, but no at the same time. We don't want to waste time
building new features only for the web development world to move forward
and make that irrelevant (CFWINDOW/CFFORM anyone?!?!?).
To add to Marcus's point ... the project is hosted in GitHub. That
means it is available to ANYONE to pick up and add new features. We are
more than happy to review and accept submissions to the core branch.
There is ZERO barrier to contribution.
At the end of the day, every user of OpenBD (or any software) has to
decide if it is for them or not. Where is your web development going?
Where are you innovating? What type of apps are you being asked to
write now compared to what you were doing maybe 5-10 years ago? These
are all questions you need to be asking on a weekly basis to make sure
you are keeping relevant and servicing your clients to the best.
Hope that helps.
On 17-Apr-16 12:42, Skellington wrote:
Hello,
I'm really curious about this. Is OpenBD dead, or will the product
grow and evolve? There has not been a stable release in a couple of
years. The release notes used to be updated with dates and no longer
do. I'm really on the fence here and in no way am I knocking the
OpenBD product. I've been using it since it was released and it's
worked really well for me. My real growing concern is if it's not
being developed and it's kinda being sun setted should I be looking at
migrating to something like Lucee?
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