Re: Next formal release of xdoclet

+1 for a 1.3 release.

On 6/16/06, Andrew Stevens <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 18:59, Konstantin Priblouda wrote:
> > --- "Reao, Eric (Mission Systems)" <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Will there be another formal release of xdoclet in
> > > the future (a new
> > > revision to version 1.2.3) or has the entire effort
> > > moved on to
> > > xdoclet2?
> >
> > Actually there was an idea to move effort to xdoclet
> > 2,
> > but significant amount of effort perefered to stay
> > with
> > xdoclet 1...  ( though xdoclet 2 is usable in
> > production since 2003 )
>
> I'm not so sure about the "significant", if you check the CVS logs
> there's only been a few people committed anything in the last year or
> so, and nothing for a few months now.
>
> The fact that there wasn't an easy migration route (e.g. a compatibility
> wrapper XJavadoc metadata provider and .xdt templating support) for the
> existing modules didn't help v2's cause; we've still got a number that
> only exist in the old version, so many people can't move to the new
> one.  And I don't have time (or inclination) to learn any more scripting
> languages that I'm not going to use anywhere else.  Heck, work's keeping
> me so busy I don't even have time to hack around on PseudoQ[1] as much
> as I'd like...
>
> Besides, technology moves on.  With the new J2EE stuff (and other
> frameworks) using annotations for a lot of the things XDoclet used to
> help with, I suspect it's only a matter or time before there's little
> need for it any more.
>
>
> Andrew.
>
> [1] http://pseudoq.sourceforge.net/  Java-based app for creating,
> playing and solving Sudoku puzzles.
>
>
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