I think the 1.6.2 beta version is quite stable, make it GA as soon as posible is a signal that indicates the project is still active.
Since someone in this user group said he uses V3 release in a production enviorment and it works fine, I suggest to public the current V3 branch with some document, espically the changes from V1.x, will get more testers for V3. iBatis.NET is a great software. It's happy to see the hope of moving on again. Yaojian On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Nicholas L. Piasecki < nicho...@piasecki.name> wrote: > As a long time user of iBATIS.NET, I pretty much agree with everything that > Rob has said here--though as a user of Castle NVelocity, I would recommend > not touching that particular project with a 64-foot pole; I would be > concerned with iBATIS.NET acquiring that dependency if it hasn't already. > It's a great templating language, but the implementation is not healthy. I > also imagine that it would limit iBATIS.NET's evolution options in the > future, such as precluding the ability to pre-generate code files instead > of > inspecting an XML configuration at start up. > > As iBATIS.NET evolves, it would be nice if it continued to "grow into" the > .NET idioms as Rob has enumerated here--things like enrolling in > System.Transaction, using the built-in <connectionStrings> in the > app.config > configuration, heck, even using the standard configuration classes at all. > This would at least help to eliminate the necessity of providers.config, > which has always seemed a bit odd to me. > > My only real hangup is that it'd be nice if these major feature changes > occurred in a branch that obviously contains breaking changes--e.g., > "3.0"--and not munging them together with existing maintenance 2.x branch. > (The Castle project, MonoRail especially, has been in "Release Candidate" > mode for seemingly its entire life, and the only way to get important bug > fixes is to track the trunk and upgrade along with all of its new features, > which is insane.) > > My two cents. My thanks to the community for all the hard work! > > V/R, > Nicholas Piasecki > > Software Developer > Skiviez, Inc. > n...@skiviez.com > 804-550-9406 > > >
