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Pi4J / pi4j-v1

DEPRECATED Java I/O library for Raspberry Pi (GPIO, I2C, SPI, UART)
http://www.pi4j.com
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New 1.2 release? #418

Closed bsutton closed 5 years ago

bsutton commented 6 years ago

Could we get a new 1.2 release so we have an up to date build available in maven etc?

ak1959 commented 6 years ago

Agreed - current snapshot is as good or better than 1.1

savageautomate commented 6 years ago

I agree and will try to get this out in the next couple of weeks. I'm just so far behind in other projects and parts of my life that this project has been on the back burner for a while now.

eitch commented 6 years ago

@savageautomate If you want, i can help with making new versions. I am an open source developer myself (Strolch) and thus know what it means to get new versions out there.

camueller commented 6 years ago

There is really a need for a new release! I was on 1.2-SNAPSHOT to get support for a new board and suddenly wiringpi was required to be installed. It is really dangerous to use a snapshot that long since everytime I build (and release!) my own application I might get a new snaphort of pi4j with a different behaviour.

eitch commented 5 years ago

@savageautomate It has been quite some time now, is it possible that you could find the time to make the new release? Or perhaps i could help you there?

thegreystone commented 5 years ago

Is there an ETA? I would be happy to help.

mirage22 commented 5 years ago

I'd be happy to help too

eitch commented 5 years ago

Hehe, i too have already said i could help and would really like too as i find the project awesome.

I'll be the bad guy here and offer to fork the project and make a release there. I would then not mind adding a few guys as devs too to then have sure less pressure on one guy.

Bad idea? Thoughts?

Robert

natdan commented 5 years ago

Or just ask Robert Savage for dev rights and do it here? :)

eitch commented 5 years ago

Well, i did say i would like to help and thought that implied dev rights.

So here: @savageautomate

Would you give me dev rights to help with making a new release?

johanjanssen commented 5 years ago

@savageautomate please let @eitch or someone else help you to create a release. Pi4J is a great and very popular solution. However people are desperate for a new release. I for one don't like to use snapshot releases. It would be great if this project is continued because else there's basically no other option then creating a fork.

Please don't take this personal, I appreciate the hard and good work you've done and I understand that at the moment you have other priorities, but please let people help you :).

savageautomate commented 5 years ago

@eitch

Sorry for the delay ... I have been pretty ill since the start of this year and unfortunately have not been following this project and its tickets closely.

If you are still interested, I would be happy to add you to the developers list/permissions.

Thanks, Robert

savageautomate commented 5 years ago

@johanjanssen

I'm working on a 1.2 release right now. I know its way overdue. I was hoping to tackle a number of open issues and get them all included in 1.2, but I think I just need to get 1.2 released and work on any further fixes in a new future build.

Thanks, Robert

johanjanssen commented 5 years ago

@savageautomate thanks a lot for working on the new release and adding more contributors.

Hope you're feeling better now!

eitch commented 5 years ago

@savageautomate Hey Robert, sorry to hear you were sick and hope you are doing better now.

Yes, i am still interested in helping out with releasing. So if you want to add me that would be fine. I might need a few pointers in building the release. But i am sure that won't be too hard, as i have my own project Strolch release to Maven as well.

savageautomate commented 5 years ago

@eitch

I'm going to go ahead and try to get v1.2 out the door pretty much as-is.
We can start any new efforts/bug fixes in v1.3.

I was also thinking about moving to a v2 where we might want to significantly reduce some of the project bloat. I think it may have been too ambitious to include everything that Pi4J is currently attmepting to tackle. At least from a support perspective, I would rather reduce the complexity and re-focus on only the main objectives which were to simply support the RAW I/O for the Raspberry Pi.

On the list to potentially cut would be support for other platforms (outside of RaspberryPi). The WiringPi support for other boards simply is not very well maintained and it causes a lot of regression testing and incompatibilities. I would also consider removing support for GPIO extenders (maybe not the idea/interfaces, but the concrete impls) and third-party platforms/boards. I would probably also deprecate the "pi4j-device" project that attempted to focus on device and component level APIs. Those never really were fully developed for the original goals intended.

Thoughts?

Thanks, Robert

camueller commented 5 years ago

I was also thinking about moving to a v2 where we might want to significantly reduce some of the project bloat. I think it may have been too ambitious to include everything that Pi4J is currently attmepting to tackle. At least from a support perspective, I would rather reduce the complexity and re-focus on only the main objectives which were to simply support the RAW I/O for the Raspberry Pi.

I fully agree with that which is also underlined by the project name. I'm looking forward to see a 1.2 release :-)

Axel

thegreystone commented 5 years ago

Any thinking around support for JDK 11? There are now (at least) two nice OpenJDK 11 based distributions - the Azul one and the Bell-Soft one.

eitch commented 5 years ago

@savageautomate

It definitely makes sense to just release 1.2 as is and start a new 1.3 or even 2.x. I myself use 1.2 snapshot in production as 1.1 doesn't work for me anymore and would really prefer a release instead of a snapshot. This is probably what the rest of the community would prefer too.

For bugfixes etc. we can then still to 1.2.x or even 1.3.x releases if need by and then do the major changes in 2.x, i.e. master/develop branch.

johanjanssen commented 5 years ago

Any thinking around support for JDK 11? There are now (at least) two nice OpenJDK 11 based distributions - the Azul one and the Bell-Soft one.

I would love to have Java 11 support as well. Maybe as a next step after a as is 1.2 release.

Reducing the project also sounds like a good idea to make it easier to maintain and upgrade.

mirage22 commented 5 years ago

I've compiled pi4j 1.2 SNAPSHOT on java11 but, I've not tested it yet. I've used a travis setup.

savageautomate commented 5 years ago

JDK 11 will be targeted in the v2.0 builds. (coming soon)

thegreystone commented 5 years ago

See #442.

savageautomate commented 5 years ago

The current master branch is prepped for a 1.2 release. Feel free to clone and compile it on your own if you want to check/test anything before 1.2 gets released.

Thanks. Robert

eitch commented 5 years ago

Splendid. I'll do a test build when i am at home, as i don't have a raspi with me at the moment.

eitch commented 5 years ago

I did a small test and don't see any problems. I think releasing should be fine.

eitch commented 5 years ago

Btw, i only compiled for the raspberry pi, as i don't have any of the other devices.

savageautomate commented 5 years ago

@eitch

No worries, thanks for testing it out.

savageautomate commented 5 years ago

Pi4J v1.2 is now released.

https://github.com/Pi4J/pi4j/releases/tag/release%2F1.2

It may take a day or two for it to get synchronized into the Maven Central repo.

thegreystone commented 5 years ago

Congrats! :)

eitch commented 5 years ago

Splendid!

savageautomate commented 5 years ago

Website now updated too :-)

savageautomate commented 5 years ago

And .... sync with Maven Central now complete ... https://search.maven.org/search?q=g:com.pi4j

That took less time than I expected.

mirage22 commented 5 years ago

Congratulation ! I've compiled pi4j for JDK 11 and tested with Bellsoft liberica JDK 11.0.2 looks like all is running.
simple test: LCD over i2c with keyboard

savageautomate commented 5 years ago

@mirage22

The develop/2.0 branch now compiles against JDK 11 as well. https://github.com/Pi4J/pi4j/tree/develop/2.0

mirage22 commented 5 years ago

Great! @savageautomate I'll test it and give a feedback!