Some time ago the founder of the project left and all remaining members but me turned inactive. Because of this Hamsam lacks resources, especially developers having the necessary time to maintain Hamsam. At that time, the code was undergoing a great structure upgrade and was therefore left in an unfinished state.
Due to the circumstances, as I am the only active developer (I have trouble finding the necessary time too), I am forced to take some steps in the upcoming future to ensure the survival of Hamsam, which are:
- All files will be removed from the CVS, due to the incomplete state of the files.
- The release of version 0.2.3 will be left as the newest version available.
- The GUI and test-client will be not supported anymore and dropped in future releases; only the core lib will remain.
- A new version will soon be released with some errors corrected.
Future expectations for Hamsam:
- Removal of the handling of smilies in the core lib, as this is considered a GUI-task .
- Added support for ICQ.
- Added support for external I/O-handling and threading, e.g. using the java.nio package.