Re: [Quickfix-users] Isn't it time for a new

[Rodrick B. <rod...@gm...>]

On Jan 21, 2008 4:42 PM, Jonathan Kalbfeld <jon...@gm...>
wrote:

> QuickFIX Documentation:
> http://www.quickfixengine.org/quickfix/doc/html/index.html
> QuickFIX Support: http://www.quickfixengine.org/services.html
>

> Is there a timeframe on using FIX 5.0?  I am building my order book system
> and will probably base it on 5.0?  Sorry, if this question has already
> been answered.
>

Unless you plan to trade other asset classes besides equities there's isnt
really a big need for FIX 5.0 ill rather see focus geared to FAST support.


> Thanks,
>
> Jonathan
>
> On Jan 21, 2008 8:59 AM, <sou...@sp...> wrote:
>
> > QuickFIX Documentation:
> > http://www.quickfixengine.org/quickfix/doc/html/index.html
> > QuickFIX Support: http://www.quickfixengine.org/services.html
> >
> > Hi Drazen.
> >
> > Yes, we are definately overdue for an official release.  To put your
> > mind at ease a bit the current version has had very little in the way
> > of issues in the real world.  Certainly nothing that would be
> > considered a critical flaw.  The issue that you see is preemptive,
> > but not terribly critical.  It only effects you if you have no access
> > to your persistence, and even then the effects aren't really
> > detrimental.  It would cause a message to be sent out even though
> > persistence is down.  Basically you would have sent what you intended
> > to send, but there would be no record of it in the message store
> > making it unavailable for resend should the other side request it.
> >
> > But yes, we are looking on getting an official release out soon.  I
> > know it's been longer than usual, but development is moving along as
> > always.  There are a few things that need to be done to the current
> > sourse before I would consider it releasable (the tests aren't the
> > only criteria), but not much at this point.
> >
> > --oren
> >
> > On Jan 21, 2008, at 10:11 AM, <+sourceforge+draza+a8ee29347d.quickfix-
> > users#lis...@sp... > wrote:
> >
> > > QuickFIX Documentation: http://www.quickfixengine.org/quickfix/doc/
> > > html/index.html
> > > QuickFIX Support: http://www.quickfixengine.org/services.html
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > first of all, a big thanks to all the contributors to this great
> > > FIX implementation. I was able in relatively short time to
> > > integrate FIX processing into our system. The build process is
> > > flawless, the documentation sufficient (could be better, though)
> > > and really, all around, great work.
> > >
> > > I was wondering if there were any plans on the next official
> > > version? Looking at some of the commit logs done after the latest
> > > official version, for example 1920 which states "Persistance is
> > > done before sending and will fail if message cannot be stored or
> > > sequence number cannot be incremented" I am worried that what I'm
> > > using now (latest official version 1.12.4) might unnecessarily
> > > cause issues down the road while the issues are actually already
> > > fixed in the SVN (this one in particular is interesting).
> > >
> > > Yes, I am well aware of the possibility of pulling down the sources
> > > as they are now, but I hate using "nightly" builds for production.
> > > Looking at the suite of tests for QuickFIX, if they run
> > > successfully, it shouldn't be that hard to simply declare current
> > > source as 1.12.x or 1.13 (or whatever) and publish it.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > >
> > > Drazen
> > >
> > >
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