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blackwinter / unicode

Unicode normalization library. (Mirror of Yoshida-san's code base to maintain the RubyGem.)
http://www.yoshidam.net/Ruby.html#unicode
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What library should be used now? #1

Closed openhood closed 14 years ago

openhood commented 14 years ago

Hello, this library doesn't seem to be maitained anymore (no more commit) - which solution would you now recommand for unicode normalization under Ruby 1.9?

blackwinter commented 14 years ago

what do you mean by unmaintained? version 0.3.0 has been released a few months ago. but it's been there for years already. it just doesn't need lots of updates anymore. it's stable! what more do you want?

openhood commented 14 years ago

On page http://www.yoshidam.net/Ruby.html#unicode it's clearly written "This library is not maintained now." and I thought this github repo was just a mirror but if you've taken back the maintenance, that's just fine! :)

blackwinter commented 14 years ago

well, yes, yoshida-san has declared it "unmaintained". but as i see it, that just means he's given up active development on it. as you can see from the changelog, he does maintenance from time to time.

with regard to this being a mirror instead of a fork, you're right there, too. i haven't taken the maintainer role. i'm currently in control of the rubygem, though. so in case you find an issue with the library and yoshida-san absolutely doesn't intend to fix it, we may give up on that restriction and release a new gem version. but that situation has still to come. for now, i'm not interested in creating a fork. but of course you can do so anytime if you feel like it.

so, do you have any issues right now? other than that, i guess you should get in touch with yoshida-san to discuss the questions you have.

openhood commented 14 years ago

Yes, thank you for the clarification.