Ok if the API is stable, I'll go with with 2.0 M4 but I'm sure there was
a 1.0 version (maybe not totally official) of the serial transportation
code.
Emmanuel Lecharny wrote:
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 !
