Re: [Quickfix-developers] FIX50

[<or...@qu...>]

It's not a terribly hard thing, the priority has just been low up to now
for the reason you stated, just wasn't a big hurry.  That has changed
and it is a top priority right now.  The work involved is not entirely
trivial.  There are a couple main pieces.

One is getting a FIX50.xml, which is in progress and nearing completion.
 We are switching to generating the xml files off of the FIX repository
distributed by the FPL.  This requires a new generator that will create
documents for FIX50 and the previous protocols.  One problem here is the
documents they distribute are a little flaky and we need to add special
code to deal with that.  It also needs to automatically handle
deprecated fields.  The new generator was started last week and is
available in svn here:
http://quickfix.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/quickfix/trunk/quickfix/spec/generate_spec.rb?view=markup

The other part of the protocol is the new version independent sessions. 
This changes how sessions are handled and requires a new battery of unit
and functional tests.

--oren

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [Quickfix-developers] FIX50
> From: Sándor <ujp...@fr...>
> Date: Thu, May 22, 2008 7:43 am
> To: qui...@li...
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>  Hi,
>  
>  Cold somebody please explain me why is 5.0
>  support such a hard thing?    Are there other
>  modifications needed in the source, or it would
>  be enough to build a FIX50.xml dictionary to get it
>  work?   Am I right that the problem lies on unlocking
>  the session and application protocol?    Or FIX.5.0
>  wouldn't such a big deal to implement, but simply
>  there's no communication partner that uses newer
>  than 4.4, so there's no need to hurry implement 5.0?
>  
>  s.
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