Re: [Orbit-python-list] ORBit - MICO

[Jason T. <ta...@au...>]

On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 08:20, Christian Reis wrote:
> I guess we should ask Tack to also update o-p.sault.org and maybe
> freshmeat/sf.net to let people know of this beforehand, since they have
> a right to know the software is unmaintained. But he'll probably only
> read this email next april or so :-)

Hey now. :)  (Well, that was a fair jab, actually.)

I'm hesitant to formally retire O-P while ORBit 0.5 is still floating
around.  Is ORBit 0.5.x still being maintained for bug fixes?  I'd not
be opposed to dealing with any bugs in ORBit-Python 0.3.1 that crop up,
but I won't add new features or work on the ORBit2 port.  Actually Johan
had done most (all?) of the work on the ORBit2 port, and I'd probably
not recognize most of the code anymore.

I did have a chance to look a bit at pyorbit, though, and it does seem
like James is taking it in a different direction than my vision for O-P
was.  It requires IDL compiling in most cases, and it seems to have a
number of non-standard requirements like ORBit.load_typelib().  I went
through great pains to make things as spec-compliant as possible (IDL
discovery anyone?)  Mind you, it was a quick look so I could be off. :)

Nevertheless, working on O-P no longer scratches any itches for me.  I
think it probably is a good idea to update the website to indicate that
there will be no new features in O-P and that it will be going away when
ORBit 0.5 does.  I don't want to speak about O-P 1.99 though.  That's
more Johan's baby, and it should be his call if he wants to put it up
for adoption.  Funny enough, O-P 1.99 got included in RedHat 8.0 and it
is by default broken. :)

Jason.

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