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The last stable release is 3 years old… #18

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
The last stable release is version 4.2 on 2011/12/09:
http://www.miglayout.com/mavensite/changes-report.html

Release 5.0 is mentioned on the web site but there are only snapshot versions 
without release notes. Most stable projects don't want to use snapshot 
dependencies because they need reproducible builds and don't want to suffer 
from regressions that could be introduced in new snapshots. This means those 
are stuck with release 4.2 for now -- or need to repackage the project.

For example, we are using release 4.2 and just discovered the memory leak 
mentioned here:
http://migcalendar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=3906
which says “This is fixed in the next version out in about a week.” -- this 
was in February 2013…

I know maintaining such a project (for free!) is time consuming but it really 
looks like the project is dying. The only thing that seems to tell the opposite 
is the git activity (which is already good).

I think though that it would be good to already publish version 5.0 and maybe 
continue with small incremental but more frequent versions (e.g. 5.0.1 and so 
on). This would also give more attention to the project and maybe attract some 
contributors. RERO! :)

p.s.: I'm sorry but I could not find a way to contact Mikael directly, neither 
on the web site, nor the forum or here on google code…

Original issue reported on code.google.com by didier.l...@gmail.com on 23 Dec 2014 at 10:33

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Hello,

You are absolutely correct. It is only lack of resources and to some extent 
lazyness that has put this off for too long. It will be released shortly.

Thanks for putting it to my (our) attention!

Cheers,
Mikael

Original comment by mikael.g...@gmail.com on 26 Dec 2014 at 9:44