Re: BeanShell alternatives (was Re: Status of projectand adding 1.5 generics)

David A. Lee wrote:
> 
> I disagree that adding new features is fine ... for the beanshell that I 
> want atleast.
> Thats one reason I'm still at b.04 instead of using the beanshell2 base, 
> even though I know there are good fixes there.  I dont know what else is 
> there and I dont want to spend the time to find out for sure.  Ok I admit
> it 
> I'm lazy and risk-adverse for this project :)
> 
> The core issue, to me,  is risk management.  In the ideal world everything 
> "continues to work properly", but in reality it often does not.
> 

This is not a new problem.  Every open source project deals with this issue. 
The usual approach is to fork off a new development version before making
major changes.  If someone wants to take responsibility for release
management, he can organize this.  This allows for both stability and
development.

That said, BeanShell2 does continue to work properly because the
enhancements have been minor.  I challenge anyone here to find a new bug
introduced in BeanShell2, that is a bug in BeanShell2 that is not in
BeanShell.



> I also disagree that limiting changes to bug fixes makes a project dead.
> 

Can you think of a single open source project that is limited to bug fixes
that isn't dead?

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