Mathieu Sacrispeyre wrote:
Hello,
I wanted to integrate Mina in an already existing application to
handle several kind of connections and protocols. Among these "network
interfaces" there is serial.
I've seen that just Mina 2.0 can do that but I need a stable version
of mina for my project.
Almost 2 years ago, I used the serial communication classes done by
Julien Vermillard for mina 1.0.
So I 've looked for them on the mailing list and I was just able to
get old versions (still using javax.com).
So my questions are :
- When should the stable version of mina 2.0 be released? (I can start
the integration of mina with the current unstable version, but the
project planing would require the stable version for january or at
last february.)
We have just released MINA 2.0.0-M4, which is (hopefully) the last
iteration before we go for a RC. That mean the API is now frozen.
You have to understand that 'stable' does not mean 'bug free' though.
Stable, in Apache language, means : 'no more new features or API changes'.
Know, we have no idea when a 2.0.0 final version will be out. The next
version will be a RC1, and it will be mainly about improving the
documentation, javadoc and samples. Of course, we will fix some bugs.
After a few RC (hopefully, if we can only have a RC1 only, that would be
great, but this is real life here, we are not in Wonderland :), we will
move to 2.0.0; but it can take a few months (I would expect a couple of
months). But there are no guarantee.
- Is it possible to have access to a former version of serial
connection which is compatible with mina 1.1 or 1.0?
I don't think we will backport serial communication to 1.x. Unless
someone want to do it, and provide the code !
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cordialement, regards,
Emmanuel Lécharny
www.iktek.com
directory.apache.org
