Specialist,
Thanks for the message and interest. Velocity is certainly not dieing -- there's a strong user community and the library is used both by independent developers and as a supporting template for many other projects. It's a mature tool that's proved useful to a wide variety of users.
As you pointed out (and Claude verified), there's plenty of potential enhancements and upgrades yet it's been a long time since a significant release or patch. We had some discussion about this at ApacheCon. I'm hoping to see some movement forward in the near term.
Best, Will
----- Original Message ----- From: "Geir Magnusson Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Status of velocity - dieing?
On Dec 10, 2004, at 6:37 AM, Claude Brisson wrote:
Velocity is far from dying, the bottleneck is that submitted patches are currently not any more applied to the source tree - we are just waiting for the main commiter to realize that he doesn't have the time to handle the project alone anymore and need to promote a new commiter (and this about more than two years now).
Good wills are far from missing, and there are many big improvements waiting to be commited, but, well, it looks like the meritocracy is stuck somewhere.
As usual, Geir, don't take it personnally, but please, ACT.
No worries. This should be resolved by this weekend. It's something we've been talking about, and are moving on.
Expect a change.
geir
Of course I'm not speaking of the vel-tools subproject, which is constantly upgrading.
Claude
On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 14:34, specialist33 wrote:
Is Velocity no longer being developed/maintained?
The current stable build (1.4) is 8 months old and has some critical bugs (for instance, the proprietary exception chaining mechanism simply doesn't work (each exception returns a pointer to itself instead of to the chained exception!), and there's no support for the java 1.4 exception chaining, even though java is now already on 1.5).
There are no milestone builds.
The last nightly build was in 2003, well over a year ago:
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